RUSSELL (William Howard).

The Prince of Wales' Tour: A Diary in India; with some Account of the Visits of His Royal Highness to the Courts of Greece, Egypt, Spain, and Portugal.

Second edition. With mounted original photographic portrait frontispiece of H.R.H. The Prince of Wales, 30 full page wood-engravings and 42 woodcuts in the text, small 4to, original red cloth with gilt cover vignette, a little spotting to boards & slight foxing to preliminary and last leaves, rear endpaper partly split at joint. Very good otherwise. All edges gilt. xxxix, 617pp. London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1877.

£250.00

An account of the tour through India in 1875-6 taken by the Prince of Wales, the future King Edward VII. The author, William Howard Russell (1820-1907), had made his name as a war correspondent in Crimea and was paid £300 per month plus expenses by The Times to accompany the prince and report on their trip.

This copy from the library of the Comte de Chambord, King Henry V of France, (1820-1883) with his posthumous bookplate issued by Maggs Bros. in the 1930s.

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