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BINDING - ROYALTY The Form and Order of the Service... in the Coronation of Their Majesties King George III. And Queen Charlotte, FIRST EDITION, 1761
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BINDING - ROYALTY
The Form and Order of the Service that is to be Performed,... in the Coronation of Their Majesties King George III. And Queen Charlotte, in the Abbey Church of St. Peter, Westminster on Tuesday the 22nd of September, 1761, FIRST EDITION, ruled in red throughout, paper toned, contemporary full red morocco gilt, the covers with elaborate roll-tool borders incorporating bird motifs, enclosing a cottage-roof style design with birds, sprays, thistles, etc. and centred on the Royal Arms, spine tooled in git with flower and thistle design in six compartments within raised bands, g.e., Dutch floral endpapers, housed in felt-lined half red morocco book box lettered in gilt on spine, head of spine rubbed with very small hole, 4to (245 x 180mm.), Printed by Mark Baskett, and by the Assigns of Robert Baskett, 1761
Footnotes
KING GEORGE IV'S COPY IN A FINE RED MOROCCO BINDING.
Provenance: King George IV, Carleton House Library bookplate, with "Duplicate 1837" stamp on verso of title. See Brian North Lee, British Royal Bookplates and Ex-Libris of Related Families, 1992, no. 81.