Durbar. Text

by Dorothy Menpes by India, Mortimer Menpes

$600 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller · No longer available

First edition · Signed

First edition, Copy Number 173 of 1000, signed by Mortimer Menpes. 100 Plates. The illustrations have been engraved and printed at the Menpes Press under Mr. Menpes's direction. 210 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Cream cloth, some wear at bottom front joint, inner hinges started. Inman #18. Item #43874 The first Durbar was held in 1877 to proclaim Queen Victoria as Empress of India. This is the second Durbar to

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