Violet Books
Mystical Illustration Plates
for Rabindranath Tagore & Frances Hodgson Burnett
A drawing by Nandalall Bose for Rabindranath Tagore's "The Hero" in The Crescent Moon (Macmillan, 1913 translated by the author from Bengali.
"In the lap of the deathless Spirit who rules our home you may have nursed for ages." A drawing by Asit Kumar Haldar for "The Beginning" by Rabindranath Tagore in The Crescent Moon. This volume of prose-poems, some of them fantastic, is exclusively about children. There are seven color plates by diverse Bengali or Indian illustrators.
"I know not what playmate of mine is in the sky." An illustration by Surendranath Ganguili for the ghostly "Paper Boat" by Rabindranath Tagore in The Crescent Moon.
"There is no time for anger." This mystical frontispiece for Frances Hodgson Burnett's Romanticist heroic fantasy tale The Land of the Blue Flower (Moffat, Yard, & Co., 1909) is by Sigismond de Ivanowski.
