Diary Duke & Duchess Cornwall & York Imperial Tour 1902 Malta Australia Canada

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THE WEB OF EMPIRE A diary of the Imperial Tour of their Royal Highnesses The Duke & Duchess of Cornwall & York in 1901 BY SIR DONALD MACKENZIE WALLACE, K.C.I.E., K.C.V.O., ASSISTANT PRIVATE SECRETARY TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS DURING THE TOUR WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY THE CHEVALIER DE MARTINO, M.V.O. ETC., MARINE PAINTER IN ORDINARY TO H.M. THE KING, AND SYDNEY P. HALL, M.V.O. MCMII (1902) FIRST EDITION HARDBACK PUBLISHED BY MACMILLAN ANDCOMPANY LTD, LONDON , NEW YORK GOOD CONDITION - All edges gilt. Blue cloth boards with gilt titles and decoration to front and spine. Light bumps and rubs to extremities. Browning to endpapers, rest of text block clean and bright. Front hinge cracked. School prize certificate to front pastedown ‘The Russell Endowed School Ledbury’. Gold embossed logo of 'Russell Middle Class School Ledbury, to rear board. Tissue guarded frontis and plates. Small corner piece missing from rear free end paper. 504 PAGES WITH 78 ILLUSTRATIONS PLUS FOLDING COLOUR ROUTE MAP OF THE IMPERIAL TOUR TO REAR OF BOOK APPROXIMATE SIZE IS 10" X 7" VERY HEAVY WEIGHS ALMOST 2kgs Contents includes: How the tour was brough about From Portsmouth to Malta From Malta to Ceylon From Ceylon to Australia Melbourne Brisbane & Sydney Auckland and the Maoris Wellington, Christchurch, Dunedin Tasmania, South Australia & Western Australia read more