1914 The Historical Record of the Imperial Visit to India 1911

Description

Colour Plates, First Edition, Folding Maps, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding, Very Scarce

A very scarce first edition.

Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, eight colour plates, two photogravures, forty-four collotypes, and numerous monochrome plates, alongside four plans, one of which is folding.

Collated, complete.

With the bookplate of Christopher J. E. Jarchow to the front pastedown.

The Delhi Durbar or Imperial Durbar was a mass assembly organized by the British at Coronation Park, Delhi, India, to mark the succession of an Emperor or Empress of India. Also known as the Imperial Durbar, it was held three times, in 1877, 1903, and 1911, at the height of the British Empire. 

The 1911 Durbar was the only one that a sovereign, George V, attended. It took pace in December 1911 to honour King George V and Queen Mary's coronation in Britain a few months prior, and to proclaim their titles of Emperor and Empress of India. All Indian princely state kings and governors were called to pay respect.

This work in great detail depicts this display of imperial power during the British Raj, and includes detailed itineraries, speeches, and illustrations of this defining event of Colonial India.