Splendid occasions in English history, 1520-1947 / by Ifan Kyrle Fletcher
1951, First Edition. London : Cassell. Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked pictorial cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #306475
Physical description; xiii, 138 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 28 x 39 cm. Contents; [1.] The field of the cloth of gold, 1520 -- [2.] The progress of Queen Elizabeth, 1558-1603 -- [3.] The wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Count Frederick, 1613 -- [4.] The restoration, coronation and wedding of Charles II, 1660-1-2 -- [5.] The creation of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, 1725 -- [6.] The Shakespeare Jubilee, Stratford-on-Avon, 1769 -- [7.] The coronation of George IV, 1821 -- [8.] The funerals of Nelson, 1806, and Wellington, 1852 -- [9.] The visit of Louis-Philippe, king of the French to Queen Victoria, 1844 -- [10.] The opening of the Great Exhibition, 1851 -- [11.] The wedding of the Prince of Wales and Princess Alexandria, 1863 -- [12.] The wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, 1947. Subjects; Processions England History. History. Great Britain History ; Pictorial works. Great Britain History To 1066. Great Britain. Genres; History. Illustrated. Pictorial works.
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