Lot 119
Wheeler, Stephen
History of the Delhi Coronation Durbar
Auction: India in Ink: The Library of Dr Raj Krishna | 01 October 2026 from 10am | Lots 79 to 208
Description
… held on the First of January 1903 to Celebrate the Coronation of His Majesty Kind Edward VII, Emperor of India. Compiled from Official Papers by Order of the Viceroy and Governor-General of India. London: John Murray, 1904. First edition, 4to, original red cloth gilt, top edge gilt, photogravure portrait frontispiece, 48 plates (20 photogravures, including portraits of Indian rulers, interleaved with tissue guards), 5 maps, plans and panoramic views (2 folded), small patches of dampstaining to upper board and spine, extremities worn, occasional scattered spotting, one tissue guard torn and tissue guard for the two adjacent panoramas detached, three gelatin silver photographs by Philip Klier of Rangoon laid in
Provenance
INDIA IN INK: THE LIBRARY OF DR RAJ KRISHNA
Footnote
‘In January 1903 a vast durbar was held in Delhi to celebrate the accession of King Edward VII. Planned entirely by the viceroy [Lord Curzon], this splendiferous occasion has often been seen as the apogee of the British empire in India’ (Oxford Dictionary of National Biography).