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Title(s):
[The coronation of George the Fourth]
Published/Created:
[London] : [Henry G. Bohn], [1841]
Physical Description:
2 volumes : illustrations ; 77 cm
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Folio C 2024 3
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Accessible in the Study Room [Request]
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Full Orbis Record:
http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/3592441
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Title from Abbey.
Imprint based on the book's appearance in Henry G. Bohn's catalogue of 1841.
Portraits engraved by S.W. Reynolds, William Bennett, Henry Hoppner Meyer, William Bond, Edward Scriven, and Peltro William Tomkins, after James and Francis Stephanoff. Also includes aquatint plates of the Ceremony of Homage, the Banquet, etc., engraved by William Bennett, Robert Havell, and Matthew Dubourg, after Charles Wild, James Stephanoff and Augustus Pugin.
Abbey, J.R. Scenery of Great Britain and Ireland, 258
Hardie, M. English coloured books, pages 69-71
BAC Folio C 2024 3: A deluxe copy, on large paper, with portions printed on silk or vellum. Some of the leaves in volume 2 include applied gold braid and small jewels. Bound in gold-tooled morocco with morocco inlays, by J. Mackenzie.
An amalgamation, including John Whittaker's Ceremonial of the coronation of His Most Sacred Majesty King George the Fourth in the Abbey of St. Peter, West-Minster (1823), the unsold copies of which were purchased by Henry G. Bohn, who "... at a large additional outlay, carried out the intention of the original projector by completing the portraits which had been left unfinished. [Bohn] has also added those executed under the direction of the late George Nayler, whose materials for the History of the Coronation had likewise passed into his possession." See Abbey for Bohn's catalog description. In addition to the 72 plates listed in Abbey and Bohn, there are 24 pages of letterpress (in volume 1) from an unidentified source describing the coronation.
Subject Terms:
Coronations -- Great Britain.
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762–1830 -- Coronation.
Form/Genre:
Engravings.
Stipple engravings.
Mezzotints.
Aquatints.
Hand coloring.
Contributors:
Bohn, Henry G. (Henry George), 1796–1884, publisher.
Stephanoff, James, 1788?-1874, illustrator.
Wild, Charles, 1781–1835, illustrator.
Pugin, Augustus, 1762–1832, illustrator.
Stephanoff, Francis Philip, 1788–1860, illustrator.
Reynolds, Samuel William, 1773–1835, engraver.
Bennett, W. J. (William James), 1787–1844, engraver.
Meyer, Henry Hoppner, 1783–1847, engraver.
Bond, William, active 1799–1833, engraver.
Scriven, Edward, 1775–1841, engraver.
Tomkins, Peltro William, 1759–1840, engraver.
Havell, Robert, 1793–1878, engraver.
Dubourg, Matthew, active 1806–1838, engraver.
Nayler, George, Sir, 1764?-1831. Coronation of His Most Sacred Majesty King George the Fourth.
Whittaker, John, -1831. Ceremonial of the coronation of His Most Sacred Majesty King George the Fourth in the Abbey of St. Peter, West-Minster.
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