The ocean of story : being C. H. Tawney's translation of Somadeva's Katha sarit sagara (or Ocean of streams of story) / now edited with introduction, fresh explanatory notes and terminal essay, by N. M. Penzer ...
Bhatta Somadeva (fl.11th century)
Category
Books
Date
1924 - 1928
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3134545
Summary
Bibliographic description
10 v. ; 8vo. Copy no. 165. Some leaves uncut in all vols. Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate, signed G.S. 24 [1924]: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Broughton’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)] in vols. 1-3 and 7-10. Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (shield on a beaded oval): 'Urban Huttleston Rogers Broughton' [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)] in vols. 4-6. Binding: Twentieth-century full publisher's black cloth; gilt stamped centrepiece on upper boards: Shiva as Lord of Dance (Nataraja); gilt stamped device on lower boards; gilt rolled outer border on upper boards: Greek key pattern within single gilt fillets; gilt stamped device on spines: head of Ganesha in a medallion; gilt rolled Greek key pattern within single gilt fillets at head and foot of spines; gilt lettered spines; gilt top edges; gilt and black textured endpapers; dark yellow ribbon marker in each vol.
Makers and roles
Bhatta Somadeva (fl.11th century), author Norman Mosley Penzer (1892-1960), editor Charles Henry Tawney (1838-1922), translator