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 ENGLISH CORONATION RECORDS Edited by LEOPOLD G. WICKHAM LEGG, B.A NEW COLLEGE, OXFORD Imperial 8vo. Edition limited to 500 copies. Price 3 1 J. 6^. net. This work is an attempt to illustrate the history of the coronation of the Sovereigns of England from the earliest times to the present. Twenty-nine documents have been collected ; and, so far as possible, the transcripts have been made from contemporary manuscripts. A translation has been added to the Latin and Anglo- French documents. Mr. W. H. St. John Hope has written a note on the ' Cap of Maintenance,' in which he has described the history and manner of the investiture of peers. The whole work constitutes a full collection of coronation precedents. The illustrations include a reproduction in colours of the picture of an English coronation at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and a photogravure of the coronation of St. Edmund in a manuscript belonging to Captain Holford ; and also reproductions in collotype from the manuscript life of St. Edward in the University Library at Cambridge. The Crown of Queen Edith, which is represented from a portrait of Queen Henrietta Maria in the National Portrait Gallery, has not, it is thought, been noticed before. A feature of the illustrations will be the coronation chair which has been taken from the block cut for the late Sir Gilbert Scott's Gleanings from Westminster Abbey ; and there are also three plates show- ing the coronation robes of Queen Victoria. ATHEN^UM : * Among the minor compensations for the prolonged delay incident to a modern act of crowning is the time that it affords for the production of such an important historical treatise as that which has just been produced by Mr. Wickham Legg. In this hand- some volume we find brought together every historical document of importance that bears on the question of English coronations from that of Aidan in the sixth century to that of Victoria thirteen centuries later.' ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE ^ CO Ltd 2 WHITEHALL GARDENS WESTMINSTER