RABINDRANATH TAGORE: PIONEER IN EDUCATION: Essays and Exchanges between Rabindranath Tagore and L. K. Elmhirst.

First edition, first printing. From the library of the English writer, Richard Church. Tipped in are two letters addressed to Church, the first from Leonard Elmhirst, the other from John Murray requesting a review of the book. Original orange cloth, lettered in gilt to the spine, with Tagore's signature stamped in gilt to the front panel. Lacking the dustwrapper, although the front and rear panels of the wrapper have been pasted in to the rear endpaper and pastedown. A very good copy, the binding square and firm, with some scattered light foxing to fore- and lower edges, prelims and final pages, and a previous owner's bookplates to the verso of the front endpaper. The spine is faded and a little bumped to tips.

Leonard Knight Elmhirst (1893-1974) was a British philanthropist and the founder, along with his wife Dorothy, of the Dartington Hall project in progressive education. Elmhirst first met Rabindranath Tagore (poet, philosopher, social reformer, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature) in America, following him to India in 1921 where he became Tagore's friend and secretary, the pair travelling extensively together. Tagore was influential in Elmhirst's foundation of the Dartington project. Pasted to the front pastedown of this copy is a letter, dated 4th May, 1961 and signed by hand, from John Murray (it is typed on the Albemarle Street publisher's headed paper) addressed to Richard Church, asking if he would like to review the volume. Another letter, pasted to the front endpaper, is from Elmhirst to Church, typed on Dartington Hall headed paper, and dated May 31st. The letter thanks Church for his letter of May 30th and his comments on the book (we cannot find any evidence of a review). Following further comments on Tagore, he informs Church that his wife had given him one of Church's books ('Over the Bridge'), which he warmly praises.

Stock code: 22568

£35

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Published:

London: John Murray.
1961

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