WHITTAKER, John (printer and publisher). Ceremonial of the Coronation of His Most Sacred Majesty King George the Fourth In the Abbey of St.Peter's, West Minster, Including the Names of the Archbishops, Bsihops, Peers, Knights, and Principal Officers who assisted in that Magnificent Ceremony. Westminster: John Whittaker 1823. Large 2° (670 x 590mm). Mounted on guards throughout. 43 leaves of thick paper with all text printed in gold, most illustrations heightened with gilt comprising: hand-coloured engraved folding frontispiece, heightened with gilt, varnished, cut to edge of image and mounted in imitation of a watercolour, the mount backed with linen; calligraphic title within an oval decorative hearaldic border with hand-coloured stipple engraving along lower border of the King's herbswoman and her six maids; calligraphic dedication surmounted by Royal regalia with hand-coloured aquatint section of the procession with six figures (one carrying the crown); 22 leaves of text (the first with a ten-line initial printed in gold on a hand-coloured blue ground), 17 of these with hand-coloured aquatint or stipple-engraved portrait-views of members of the procession at the foot of the page, 5 with hand-coloured lithographic portraits of individual participants in the ceremony; one plate printed in gold on a variously coloured ground, titled 'Altar in the Abbey of St.Peter, West-Minster, with the Regalia of England'; 3 leaves of text, each with hand-coloured lithographic portraits of individual participants; 1 plate, one hand-coloured stipple and mezzotint portrait of the Duke of York and attendant; letterpress description of the Duke of York's titles within an elaborate border including appropriate emblems; 4 leaves with descriptions of the Royal Dukes's titles, above hand-coloured stipple and mezzotint portait/views of the Dukes and their attendants; 5 leaves with description of the titles of the five senior Dukes and Marquisses involved, with hand-coloured stipple and mezzotint portraits of the individuals beneath; one plate, a view of the moment of coronation; 2 leaves with letterpress listing of the Peeresses who were present, each leaf with text within decorative border, the borders surmounted by a watercolour of the crown, gilded and with the jewels in semi-relief. The final leaf, on thin paper, is a calligraphic manuscript on the recto only, titled 'Index to the Plates'. (The 13th and 14th leaves somewhat spotted.) Contemporary russia, covers elaborately panelled in gilt and blind, wide gilt turn-ins, comb-marbled endpapers, gilt edges (neatly rebacked, extremities scuffed). Provenance : Duke of Northumberland (armorial bookplate). A VERY FINE COPY OF ONE OF THE MOST MAGNIFICENT BOOK PRODUCTIONS OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY, FROM THE DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND'S LIBRARY, ONE OF PROBABLY NO MORE THAN 40 COPIES. Hardie (pp.69-70) quotes a contemporary notice stating that the work was 'designed for a specimen of typographical elegance not to be surpassed, and will be printed in gold letters, accompanied with portraits of the distinguished persons who composed the splendid procession, in their respective dresses, richly coloured as drawings'. Cf. Abbey Scenery 248; Brunet I, 1741.
WHITTAKER, John (printer and publisher). Ceremonial of the Coronation of His Most Sacred Majesty King George the Fourth In the Abbey of St.Peter's, West Minster, Including the Names of the Archbishops, Bsihops, Peers, Knights, and Principal Officers who assisted in that Magnificent Ceremony. Westminster: John Whittaker 1823. Large 2° (670 x 590mm). Mounted on guards throughout. 43 leaves of thick paper with all text printed in gold, most illustrations heightened with gilt comprising: hand-coloured engraved folding frontispiece, heightened with gilt, varnished, cut to edge of image and mounted in imitation of a watercolour, the mount backed with linen; calligraphic title within an oval decorative hearaldic border with hand-coloured stipple engraving along lower border of the King's herbswoman and her six maids; calligraphic dedication surmounted by Royal regalia with hand-coloured aquatint section of the procession with six figures (one carrying the crown); 22 leaves of text (the first with a ten-line initial printed in gold on a hand-coloured blue ground), 17 of these with hand-coloured aquatint or stipple-engraved portrait-views of members of the procession at the foot of the page, 5 with hand-coloured lithographic portraits of individual participants in the ceremony; one plate printed in gold on a variously coloured ground, titled 'Altar in the Abbey of St.Peter, West-Minster, with the Regalia of England'; 3 leaves of text, each with hand-coloured lithographic portraits of individual participants; 1 plate, one hand-coloured stipple and mezzotint portrait of the Duke of York and attendant; letterpress description of the Duke of York's titles within an elaborate border including appropriate emblems; 4 leaves with descriptions of the Royal Dukes's titles, above hand-coloured stipple and mezzotint portait/views of the Dukes and their attendants; 5 leaves with description of the titles of the five senior Dukes and Marquisses involved, with hand-coloured stipple and mezzotint portraits of the individuals beneath; one plate, a view of the moment of coronation; 2 leaves with letterpress listing of the Peeresses who were present, each leaf with text within decorative border, the borders surmounted by a watercolour of the crown, gilded and with the jewels in semi-relief. The final leaf, on thin paper, is a calligraphic manuscript on the recto only, titled 'Index to the Plates'. (The 13th and 14th leaves somewhat spotted.) Contemporary russia, covers elaborately panelled in gilt and blind, wide gilt turn-ins, comb-marbled endpapers, gilt edges (neatly rebacked, extremities scuffed). Provenance : Duke of Northumberland (armorial bookplate). A VERY FINE COPY OF ONE OF THE MOST MAGNIFICENT BOOK PRODUCTIONS OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY, FROM THE DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND'S LIBRARY, ONE OF PROBABLY NO MORE THAN 40 COPIES. Hardie (pp.69-70) quotes a contemporary notice stating that the work was 'designed for a specimen of typographical elegance not to be surpassed, and will be printed in gold letters, accompanied with portraits of the distinguished persons who composed the splendid procession, in their respective dresses, richly coloured as drawings'. Cf. Abbey Scenery 248; Brunet I, 1741.
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