The Royal Tour In India: A Record of Tour of T.R.H The Prince Princess of Wales in India and Burma, from Nov 1905 to March 1906 [Signed Copy by King George V]
Stanley Reed, The Royal Tour In India: A Record of Tour of T.R.H The Prince Princess of Wales in India and Burma, from Nov 1905 to March 1906, Bombay: Bennett, Coleman & Co., The "Times of India" office, 1906
xxiv, 510 pages, [4] pp.; full-page map, illustrated after photographs throughout, half-title; 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 images of different ceremonies, processions, rituals, different places in India and 213 small pages of aforesaid items
12.5 x 10.25 x 1.5 in (31.7 x 26 x 4 cm)
This is a Signed copy by King George V. Inscribed "For Major Fritz Ponsonby / from GeorgeP. / Xmas 1907" on the half title page.
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.
A special deluxe binding edition of the same title was sold in the past on StoryLTD, 21 September 2022, lot 88.
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