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
1927
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3134545.7
Summary
Bibliographic description
v. 7 ; 8vo. Copy no. 165. Some leaves uncut. Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate, signed G.S. 24 [1924]: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Broughton’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Twentieth-century full publisher's black cloth; gilt stamped centrepiece on upper board: Shiva as Lord of Dance (Nataraja); gilt stamped device on lower board; gilt rolled outer border on upper board: Greek key pattern within single gilt fillets; gilt stamped device on spine: head of Ganesha in a medallion; gilt rolled Greek key pattern within single gilt fillets at head and foot of spine; gilt lettered spine; gilt top edge; gilt and black textured endpapers; dark yellow ribbon marker.
Makers and roles
Bhatta Somadeva (fl.11th century), author Norman Mosley Penzer (1892-1960), editor Charles Henry Tawney (1838-1922), translator