Blossoms of Bangalore

Bangalore, India: Marketing Consultants & Agencies Ltd. (1st Edition, 1994). Pictorial hardcover with matching pictorial dust jacket, both in very good condition, 195 pages. Clean and unmarked. Colors bright. Binding is square and tight.

T. P. Issar ( - 2004) was the author of highly-lauded books on the architectural heritage of Bangalore and Mysore cities--THE CITY BEAUTIFUL and THE ROYAL CITY. Issar, ever an admirer of Bangalore's blossoms, was hesitant to embark on BLOSSOMS OF BANGALORE because of his admitted "floral illiteracy". It needed a little goading before he started work on a book which, he hoped, would improve his own knowledge of the flowering trees of Bangalore and bring out the "poet-painter's vision" which put them there: a book which would delight the eye besides being a handy reference volume for the non-botanist "florophile". He wanted people to be on "first-name terms" with at least a few of the tree-blossoms which bring them so much joy--articulated or just felt. An important purpose of the book was to impress on the citizen and the future administrators and planners of the City the concept and value of the unique culture of bio-aesthetic planning which was developed in Bangalore, so that "this created aesthetics is kept and renewed with care and pride". T. P. ISSAR was an officer of the Indian Administrative Service for over 30 years, and was the former chief secretary for the Indian State of Karnataka. He chaired the Bangalore Urban Art Commission from its inception in 1976.