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Royal photographic album of scenes and personages connected with the progress of...

Catalogue reference: Photo 992, 1

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Photo 992, 1
Title
Royal photographic album of scenes and personages connected with the progress of H. R. H. the Prince of Wales through Bengal, the North West Provinces, the Punjab and Nepal. With some descriptive letterpress. Photographer(s): Bourne and Shepherd.
Date
1860s-1876
Description

Imprint: Calcutta, Bombay, and Simla: Bourne and Shepherd. 1876. Folio, red full-leather bound volume measuring 375 x 290 mm, with title and decorations in gilt on upper and lower boards; edges gilt, marbled endpapers; pp. iv, 79. The titlepage is inscribed 'D. Mackinlay Esqre with K. Murray's kind regards. 29th June 1877.' The donor was presumably Kenneth Murray (1831-1901), employee and later managing partner of Bourne & Shepherd. The volume contains 141 prints, mounted on card, two or three to a page, with accompanying letterpress descriptions. Most of the prints are in albumen but a few carbon prints are included, recording events and personalities connected with the Indian tour of Edward Prince of Wales in 1875-76. While many of the photographs document events during the tour a number of the topographical and architectural views were taken in the mid-1860s by Samuel Bourne and were merely drawn from stock for inclusion in this commemorative volume.Another copy at Photo 992/2.

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British Library: Asian and African Studies
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1918: Titlepage is inscribed 'D. Mackinlay Esqre with K. Murray's kind regards. 29th June 1877.' Red India Office Library date stamp, 3 Apr 1918.
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Royal photographic album of scenes and personages connected with the progress of H. R. H. the Prince of Wales through Bengal, the North West Provinces, the Punjab and Nepal. With some descriptive letterpress. Photographer(s): Bourne and Shepherd.