Coronation of their Magesties King George VI and Queen Elizabeth

6R Coronation Service in Abbey Church of S. Peter, Westminster May 12, 1937. London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1937.

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The official order of service and ceremonial guide for the coronation of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth at Westminster Abbey on 12 May 1937. It was prepared under the authority of the Church of England and His Majesty’s Stationery Office and published in London just before the event. The volume lays out the complete sequence of rites and ceremonial actions to be performed during the service—including the preparation, procession, oath, anointing, investiture with regalia, crowning, presentation of the Bible, enthronization, homage, and communion—reflecting the ancient Anglican liturgy as adapted for that occasion. It typically includes prayers, instructions, and the music to be sung during the service, printed with rubrics (directions) and often with music notation for choral settings. Because it preserves the precise ceremonial text and structure of the 1937 coronation, the book is both a liturgical record and a valuable historical document of the Church, monarchy, and pageantry of mid‑20th‑century Britain.

Description

Original ticket for ceremony, white binding with gold tooled crest on front cover, intact, good condition.