The tribal art of Middle India : a personal record

London : OUP, 1951. First edition. Quarto (255 x 195 mm), publisher’s yellow cloth with black lettering to spine (fine),  in the pictorial dust jacket (chipped at corners and pine ends); pp. [16, last blank], 1-214; with 229 photographic plates (some in colour) and monochrome in-text illustrations; clean throughout, a very good copy.

A scholarly and well-illustrated study of the art of the tribal peoples of Madhya Pradesh, Orissa and parts of Bihar, that covers textiles, headdresses, tobacco cases, combs, ritual and cultic art (including funerary pillars and dance masks), statuary, painting and drawing.