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The Form and Order of the Coronation of Their Majesties King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra.

1902

RCIN 1080420

This specially printed copy of the form and order of the Coronation service is signed by King Edward VII to show that it was the one that he used during the service. Instructions as to what the King was to say and do throughout the Coronation service are underlined in red ink, and small alterations to the service have been noted.

The book was bound in brown goatskin gold-tooled with elegant strapwork-style decoration by Florence Paget, a notable woman bookbinder who was working between 1899 and 1907.
  • annotation: [The Queen ariseth and goeth to] 'her Faldstool set before' [the steps of the Altar] [p. 23]

    annotation: Instructions for the Queen to go to the Faldstool crossed out [p. 24]


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