Rustam J. Mehta
The Handicrafts and Industrial Arts of India.
Bombay: Taraporevala's Treasure House of Books, 1960. First edition. xiii/157 pages.
Large-format volume, measuring approximately 9" x 11.5", is bound in original dark green cloth, with bright pictorial designs in white, red, yellow, gray and green. Book displays  light shelfwear, with mild foxing to top and fore edge of text block. Binding is firm. Interior is clean and bright. Text appears in double columns, with 4 color & 150 monochrome plates illustrating circa 500 examples.
A pictorial and descriptive survey of Indian craftsmanship as seen in masterpieces of jewellery and metal crafts, arms and armour, furniture and inlay crafts, stone and ivory carving, lacquer crafts and lac-turnery . pottery and glassware, clay figures and folk toys, hand-woven textiles . the Bandhani and Patola, carpets and rugs, leather crafts and shell work, baskets and mats.