Laver, James. Royal Progress. A Pageant of Regal Travel. Painted by John Leigh Pemberton. First Limited Edition printed on mould-made paper. No. 53/550. Signed. London, The Curwen Press for Shell-Mex and B.P. Limited, 1953. 31 x 25 cm. 36 pages with 13 tissue guarded colour plates, some double-paged. Original cloth with large paper plate glued to front board. Gilt title on spine. ER2 decorated end papers. Top edge gilt. Very good condition. Minor shelf wear, rubbing and bumping. cloth binding cockled on rear board. Edges and end papers dust dulled. Some of the tiisue guards worn and folded. Paper label on front paste down: ‘Presented to Field Marshal, the Viscount Alanbrooke, Coronation Year 1953’. Losely inserted card ‘With Mr. C.M. Vignoles’ Compliments. Shell-Mex House, London.’

Provenance: From the Library of Sir Alan Francis Brooke, Field Marshal Alanbrooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke.

At the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953, Brooke, by then a Field-Marshal and a Viscount, held the office of Lord High Constable of England. The office of Lord High Constable of England is, in modern times, only exercised at Coronations. Alanbrooke was thus in command of all troops taking part in the Coronation Ceremonies. He rode in the procession and attended the splendid ritual in Westminster Abbey as one of the great officers of State.

Shell-Mex and B.P. represented the Anglo-Iranian Group of Oil Companies of which Alanbrooke was a board member after the war.

• Keywords: Fine Bindings & Editions · Fine Bindings & Editions · Great Britain · History · Transport & Travel
• Language: English
• Signed/inscribed
• First edition
• Inventory Number: 101336AB

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