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Stanley Reed, The Royal Tour in India. A Record of the Tour of T. R. H. The Prince and Princess of Wales in India and Burma, from November 1905 to March 1906, Bombay: Bennett, Coleman & Co, 1906, first edition

xxiv, 518 pages, [10] pp.; frontispiece portraits with tissue guards, 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; original publisher's maroon morocco leather binding with gilt text on the front boards, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt
12 x 9.25 in (30.4 x 23.4 cm)

This is a special deluxe binding edition which was done only for a few copies. Most of the copies are found to be bound in plain blue cloth.

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 and 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 in 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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