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Auction: 24025 - Historical Documents Featuring the Major David Cecil Underwood Jr Collection of Royal Visits to India 1876-1906
Lot: 72

(x) The Major David Cecil Underwood Jr. Collection
India Royal Visit 1875-6
1875 Verses titled "The Cruise of H.M.S. Serapis with H.R.H. The Prince of Wales 1875" by William Tozer R.M. printed by Wilkins, Portsea, 38pp, bound in black cloth with a coloured engraving of the ship laid down on the rear inside page; with a soft covered satire titled "The Blot on the Queen's Head" referencing the change in name of the "Queen's Inn" to the "Empress Hotel" and comments on the haste with which the Royal Titles Bill was being "forced through Parliament". Published by Strahan & Co, Paternoster Row, 1876, 32pp. Also the 48 page Illustrated London News supplement titled "India and the Prince of Wales" with a detached folding map showing the proposed route of the Prince (3)

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Estimate
£200 to £250

Starting price
£150