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a)
MORTIMER MENPES ed., The Durbar, London: Adam and Charles Black, 1903

Original publisher's vellum boards, with top edges gilt
210 pages and 100 colour plates along with tissue guards with the title of each plate printed on it .br.27.5 x 22.5 x 6 cm

Signed by Mortimer Menpes, limited edition copy numbered 261 of 1000. The illustrations in this volume were engraved and printed at the Menpes Press under the supervision of the artist.

b)
WIELE & KLEIN, The Royal Tour: A Souvenir Album of The Visit of Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales to India and Burma, 1905-06, Madras: Higginbotham and Co., 1906

54 pages of descriptive text; 162 pages including 277 printed plates after photographs by Wiele & Klein; 6 advertisement pages
Original decorated cloth and fresh spine
22 x 28.5 x 2 cm

c)
Durbar Souvenir 1911-12

50 pages including printed plates after photographs by Bourne and Shepherd, and a big folding plate with a panoramic view of the Durbar original wrappers
Contemporary binding bound in marbled boards
19 x 25.5x 1 cm

d)
CHARLES FEILDEN, The Indian Empire Royal Book, London: The British People Book Company Ltd., 1912

310 pages Illustrated with coloured and black and white plates depicting Indian Maharajas, including 14 photographs by Lafayette
Original decorated boards with gilt title and the queen's crown emblem on the front board
31.5 x 25.5 x 2.5 cm