OUR EMPIRE STORY: STORIES OF INDIA AND THE GREATER COLONIES
By H. E. Marshall.
With colour plates by J. R. Skelton.
Published by T. C. & E. C. Jack, London and Edinburgh, undated [circa 1910s], sixth impression/ 1908.
Hardcover in the original navy-blue pictorial cloth, decorated in gilt and colour.
Octavo, xiv, 493 pages plus a colour frontispiece, numerous colour plates and 6 maps.
Our Empire Story presents the histories of Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and India for younger readers, combining exploration, settlement, warfare and the expansion of the British Empire.
PROVENANCE: John Delprat Sprod, nephew by marriage to Sir Douglas Mawson. (His aunt was Paquita Delprat).