Bytal-Puchisi or the twenty five tales of Bytal
Printed at the Sobha-Bazar Press|Calcutta [Calcutta] 1834|13 x 20 cm|relié
Bytal-Puchisi Or The Twenty Five Tales of Bytal
Printed at the Sobha-Bazar Press
| Calcutta 1834 | 13 x 20 cm | contemporary calf
First edition of the English translation. Portrait of Rajah Kalee-Krishen Behadur, translator, mounted on guards on the frontispiece.
Contemporary binding half red calf, spine decorated with gilt fleurons and fillets, glued paper boards highlighted with a gilt roll-stamp, marbled endpapers.
Some skillfully filled wormholes, sometimes damaging a few letters without hindering reading.
The twenty-five stories in this collection are linked to a Hindu legend, originally written in Sanskrit in the 11th century by Somadeva under the title Ve
Printed at the Sobha-Bazar Press
| Calcutta 1834 | 13 x 20 cm | contemporary calf
First edition of the English translation. Portrait of Rajah Kalee-Krishen Behadur, translator, mounted on guards on the frontispiece.
Contemporary binding half red calf, spine decorated with gilt fleurons and fillets, glued paper boards highlighted with a gilt roll-stamp, marbled endpapers.
Some skillfully filled wormholes, sometimes damaging a few letters without hindering reading.
The twenty-five stories in this collection are linked to a Hindu legend, originally written in Sanskrit in the 11th century by Somadeva under the title Ve
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