Mudras: The Ritual Hand-Poses of the Buddha Priests and the Shiva Priests of Bali.
New York: University Books, 1970. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Quarto (10 x 8.25 inches). (iv) + vi + 1-42pp. (text) + (ii) + 1- 62pp plates. Original black cloth with gilt titling to spine. 60 pages of mostly full-page drawings by the author. A study of the mudras - the ritual hand positions of Hindu and Buddhist Balinese priests - with over 70 illustrations (on 60 pages) by the Swedish artist Tyra De Kleen (some plates show just the hands, others the whole person making the gestures). The volume was originally published in 1924 and includes an 11 page Introduction by A. J. D. Campbell, then Assistant-Keeper in the Indian Section of the Victoria and Albert Museum, a 17 page essay on Mudras by the author, and 7 pages comrpising explanatory notes for each of the individual drawings. The drawings were originally exhibited at the Victoria & Albert Museum in 1923. This edition also includes a new Foreword by Omar V. Garrison. A little light shelf-wear to the boards, top edge darkened and with some foxing, a few pages have faint black smudging (almost certainly an artifact of the printing process). Still a tight, clean, VG+ copy in VG dust jacket (the dust jacket is price-clipped, rubbed and lightly chipped at the edges, a little rubbed at folds, and with four tiny pin-holes - only really visible when you remove it. Now protected by removable mylar sleeve). Item #68733
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