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James Talboys Wheeler, The History of the Imperial Assemblage at Delhi: Held on the 1st January 1877, to celebrate the Assumption of the Title of Empress of India by Her Majesty the Queen. Including Historical Sketches of India and Her Princes Past and Present, London: Longmans, Green, Reader and Dyer, no date but [1878]

xix; 248 pages; three coloured maps (one double-spread of the Durbar arena), portraits of 11 Indian Maharajahs, Queen Victoria and Viceroy Lord Lytton and 12 views of Delhi and of the Durbar; one double-spread chromolithograph by Hanhart, depicting the Imperial Assemblage at Delhi; and medallions. (24 of the 26 Woodbury type actual sepia photographs pasted on thick sheets are by Bourne & Shepherd of Calcutta); richly rebound in red half-leather with marbled boards and leather corners and matching marbled endpapers. All edges gilt. Spine richly tooled in gilt designs and embossments and carrying the words ‘Wheeler Imperial Assemblage At Delhi’ and at the spine bottom the oval gilt embossment stating ‘Library of Canada Parliament’. Front board bottom also carries the gilt impression ‘Library of Parliament’. Stamp on the front free endpaper stating the book is WITHDRAWN from the Parliament library. Front edges of boards with slight wear.
12 x 10.2 x 1.9 in (30.5 x 26 x 5 cm)

The portraits are of Maharaja Jung Bahadur of Nepal, Nizam of Hyderabad, Gaekwar of Baroda, Maharajas of Mysore, Gwalior, Indore, Udaipur, Jaipur, Jodhpur, Jammu & Kashmir, the Begum of Bhopal and the Khan of Kalat. Besides, there is a stunning double-page chromolithograph of the Durbar arena, 5 other lithographs and other illustrations, all matching the list of contents.

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