BOURNE & SHEPHERD

The Coronation Durbar Delhi, Calcutta, Simla and Bombay: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1903

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BOURNE & SHEPHERD
The Coronation Durbar Delhi, Calcutta, Simla and Bombay: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1903
Illustrated with 132 albumen prints including two copies of paintings and six composite photographs, several panoramic format to approx. 5½ x 11 in., other sizes approx. 8½ x 11 in. to 9 x 13 in. or the reverse, mounted at left corners to green paper, each with letterpress title and several with descriptive text in purple within decorative gilt border on overleaf, introduction, title page with photographer's and publisher's credits, red morocco, titled Coronation Durbar Delhi 1903 of His Majesty King Edward VII. Viceroy Baron Curzon of Kedleston, P.C., G.M.S.I., in gilt within elaborate gilt border on front cover, folio.

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This work was printed in either albumen or platinum and includes portraits of Lord and Lady Curzon, the Duke and Duchess of Connaught, H.H. the Nizam of Hyderabad, the Governors and Lieutenant-Governors of India, the Maharajas of Mysore, Alwar, Jhalawar, Patiala, Sikhim, Cooch Behar, Kapurthala, Benares, Kashmir; several Rajas, the Crown Prince of Nabha, the Nawabs of Rampur and Bahawalpur; the Shan Chiefs and Princesses; 'A Giant of Cashmere'; 'Burmese warriors at the Review of Native Chiefs' Retinues'; elephants decorated with state jewels and cloths of gold and silver and another in armour; several views of the state entry into Delhi and many of the Durbar.