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a)
TITLE: The Royal Tour In India, A Record Of Tour Of H.R.H The Prince Princess Of Wales In India And Burma, From Nov 1905 To March 1906
AUTHOR: Stanley Reed
PUBLISHER: Bennett Coleman And Co
PLACE: Bombay
YEAR: 1906
BINDING: Original blue cloth gilt
NO.OF PAGES: 510, printed on specially made thick art glossy paper, containing 30 full-page portraits of British Royal families, Princes, Princesses, Governors, Indian Kings, 57 full page pp of diff ceremonies, processions, rituals, diff places of India & 213 small pp of aforesaid items
SIZE:
Height: 31.7 cm
Width: 25.4 cm
Depth: 2 cm
The book consists of Index to Places visited, Route Map of the tour of the Prince of Wales, 34 chapters along with The Prince of Wales Guildhall speech, other speeches in India, list of appointments in the Royal Victorian order made by his royal highness, list of knighthoods conferred by his Royal Highness, list of Gentlemen visited by his royal highness at Karachi with the Indian orders to which they have been appointed by his majesty the king-emperor of India, native titles, the shooting record, the prince of Wales household.
The illustrations were taken from photographs by Raja Deen Dayal & Sons and by Bourne and Shepherd. This important tour visited Bombay, Indore, Udaipur, Jaipur, Bikanir, Lahore, Peshawar, The Khyber, Rawalpindi, Jammu, Amritsar, Delhi, Agra, Gwalior, Lucknow, Calcutta, Rangoon, Madras, Mysore, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Benares, Aligarh, Quetta, Chaman & Karachi. As well as views of the tour there are numerous architectural views and portraits of princes and rulers, officials, etc. A most useful work of record for Imperial India. The tour took place 30 years after the visit of the Prince's father (who was later Edward VII). The Prince and Princess enjoyed their trip and were to visit India again for a Coronation tour in 1911 when the Prince became George V.
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TITLE: The King and Queen in India, 1911-12
AUTHOR: Stanley Reed
PUBLISHER: Bennett Coleman And Co
PLACE: Bombay
YEAR: 1912
BINDING:
NO.OF PAGES: 350 Pages, Printed On Art Paper, Profusely Illustrated With Portraits of Indian Maharajas (Contains a beautiful panorama of Delhi Durbar 1911)
SIZE:
Height: 30.4 cm
Width: 25.4 cm
Depth: 2 cm
c)
TITLE: The Coronation Souvenir
EDITOR: Cawas N Daji
PUBLISHER: Souvenir Publishing Company
PLACE: Bombay
YEAR: 1937
BINDING: D/W Hardbound
NO.OF PAGES: 152 Pages, Printed On Art Paper, Profusely Illustrated With Portraits of Indian Maharajas Some Coloured. Nice Condition Overall, Couple of First and last pages slightly stained.
SIZE:
Height: 31.7 cm
Width: 25.4 cm.br.Depth: 2 cm
A Collection of Articles Published to Commemorate the Coronation of King George VI. With Plates, Including Portraits.
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