Rabindranath Tagore – Gitanjali – 1926

An early English-language edition of this renowned prose collection by the Indian Nobel Prize-winning writer.

Text translated from the original Bengali by the author. With an introduction by W.B. Yeats.

Gitanjali remains amongst Tagore’s best-known and most acclaimed collections, and roughly translates into English as ‘Song Offerings’.

Published in 1926 by Macmillan in London, a later printing of the March 1913 first impression. With a sketch of the author opposite the title page.

Hardback, bound in blue cloth, with gilt lettering and border. With the rare original jacket, which has some marks, stains and edgewear. No writing inside. Binding tight and square.