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ROYALTY - CORONATION BOOKS The Form and Order of the Service... in the Coronation of Their Majesties King Edward VII. and Queen Alexandra... edited by Sir Frederick Bridge, NUMBER 6 OF 500 LARGE PAPER COPIES, 1902; and 8 others, mostly "special" edition Coronation books, 2 in embroidered binding (9) image 1
ROYALTY - CORONATION BOOKS The Form and Order of the Service... in the Coronation of Their Majesties King Edward VII. and Queen Alexandra... edited by Sir Frederick Bridge, NUMBER 6 OF 500 LARGE PAPER COPIES, 1902; and 8 others, mostly "special" edition Coronation books, 2 in embroidered binding (9) image 2
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ROYALTY - CORONATION BOOKS
The Form and Order of the Service... in the Coronation of Their Majesties King Edward VII. and Queen Alexandra... edited by Sir Frederick Bridge, NUMBER 6 OF 500 LARGE PAPER COPIES, 1902; and 8 others, mostly "special" edition Coronation books, 2 in embroidered bindings (9)

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ROYALTY - CORONATION BOOKS

The Form and Order of the Service... in the Coronation of Their Majesties King Edward VII. and Queen Alexandra... edited by Sir Frederick Bridge, NUMBER 6 OF 500 LARGE PAPER COPIES, publisher's gilt-blocked morocco, g.e., Novello and Company, 1902; Idem, another copy, NUMBER 14 OF 500 COPIES, publisher's vellum gilt, t.e.g., [Henry Frowde, 1902]; Idem, another copy, old pencil note "The private edition of their majesties from library at Kensington Palace" on verso of title, book block loose stitched in silk-covered boards, the upper cover EMBROIDERED with a design of English roses and foliage in red, white and green silks and gilt threads intertwined with a cartouche lozenge of thicker gilt threads, enclosing embroidered coronet above lettering "R.VII R" and date "1902", gilt thread and bow holding book block, frayed at spine, [Henry Frowde, 1902]--The Form and Order of the Service... in the Coronation of Their Majesties King George V and Queen Mary, some spotting (heaviest to title), corners slightly rubbed, 1911--The Form and Order of the Service... in the Coronation of their Majesties King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, 1937, publisher's red half decorative morocco gilt, g.e., Novello; Idem, another copy, publisher's vellum gilt, g.e., Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1937--The Ceremonies to be Observed at the Royal Coronation of... King George the Sixth and Queen Elizabeth... The 10th Day of May 1937, PRINCESS BEATRICE'S BOOKPLATE (designed by F. Badeley, 1928), title on upper cover, stitched in original gilt-blocked vellum, g.e., some age soiling, [H.M.S.O., 1937]--The Music with the Form and Order of the Service... at the Coronation of Her Most Excellent Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, NUMBER 120 OF AN EDITION OF 150 COPIES, publisher's decorative red calf gilt, g.e., preserved in original box with limitation label, Novello, 1953--English Sacred Lyrics, inscribed in ink "For my darling Beatrice... from her loving old teachers, Dec. 8th/96" on front free endpaper (with later pencil note suggesting the Beatrice is Princess Beatrice, daughter of Queen Victoria), EMBROIDERED BINDING of white silk over boards, the upper cover with design of a large central flower and four smaller flowers in the corners in light blue, white and green silks within a border of gilt threads, gilt thread design on spine, g.e., slightly frayed at edges, Kegan Paul, 1884, 8vo, 4to and small folio (9)

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