Inscribed by the author to a close friend of Oscar Wilde

Tagore, Sourindro Mohun. Tárávatí: a Tale, translated into English.

€ 4,500.00

Only edition of this Hindu legend of Taravati, the wife of a wealthy Indian merchant, a tale originally composed by the translator's mother. Elaborately bound presentation copy, inscribed by the Indian musicologist and writer Sourindro Tagore (1840-1914) to the British patron of the arts, Constance Gwladys Robinson, Marchioness of Ripon (1859-1917), a close friend of Oscar Wilde (to whom the latter would dedicate "The Importance Of Being Ernest"): "In submission as an humble offering to Her Excellency The Most Hon.ble Marchioness of Ripon, CI. / With Sourindro Mohun Tagore's most profound respect", dated Calcutta, 5 December 1881. Rare; OCLC lists only six copies in libraries worldwide.