Ceremonies, and ancient customs, observed at the coronations of the kings of England.
RA Collection: Book
Record number
13/1652
Imprint
London: Printed by and for Geo. Smeeton, 1820
Physical Description
48 p., 3 plates (fold.): illus.; 207 mm.
General Note
Originally issued in three parts (with the printed front-wrapper of 'No. 2' present). Includes 3 folded etched plates: The Coronation of the King in Westminster Abbey (as frontispiece), The Manner of the Champions Performing the Ceremony of the Challenge (facing p. 36), and Description of the Crowns, Scepters, &c (facing p. 44) - the last two of which are signed 'I. R. C. fecit' [i.e. Isaac Robert Cruikshank?].
Provenance
Part of a set of pamphlets from the library of Richard Westmacott RA presented by Mrs Rodwell in 1937 (see RA Annual Report for 1937, p. 55).
Bound (1) in vol. IV of a set of pamphlets from the library of Richard Westmacott RA.
Binding Note
In green quarter-bound leather; spine with two red leather labels, both lettered in gilt, the first as 'Miscellaneous' and the second as 'Vol. / IV'.