The Duke of Edinburgh in Ceylon. A book of elephant and elk sport ... Illustrated with chromo-lithographs, etc
An account of the Duke of Edinburgh's 1870 visit to Ceylon and its elephant and elk hunts, written by John Capper with chromolithographs by Vincent Brooks and issued in London by Provost & Co. in 1871 for a British readership following royal travels. Alongside the sporting plates run pen-drawn headpieces and tailpieces of symmetrical foliate scrollwork, ivy and star-flowers, budded tendrils and small cross motifs, all in fine black line on cream, usable as chapter dividers, borders and spot ornaments.
