[Rarebooks] fa: CORONATION OF KING GEORGE III - OFFICIAL "SOUVENIR PROGRAM" 1761

[Ardwight Chamberlain]

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The Form of Proceeding to the Royal Coronation of Their Most Excellent  
Majesties King George III and Queen Charlotte. From Westminster-Hall,  
to the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, at Westminster. On Tuesday the  
22d Day of September 1761. Together with a List of the Peers,  
Peeresses, and Privy-Counsellors. London: Printed by William Bowyer.  
Sold by George Woodfall, at Charing-Cross; and Barnes Tovey, in Palace- 
Yard, MDCCLXI [1761]. FIRST EDITION. Folio (28.5 x 18.5 cm), stitch- 
bound as issued; [3],6-18 pp. ESTC T88230.

Very uncommon original "program" providing the full line-up and play- 
by-play of the coronation of King George III, including "A Scheme of  
the Procession"; a "List of Peers and Peeresses of Great Britain"  
expected to be in attendance; and a "List of Lords and Others of His  
Majesty's Most Honourable Privy-Council." Many notable or infamous (or  
soon to be one or the other) names appear, including: Horatio [Horace]  
Walpole; explorer and Admiral of the Fleet George Anson; the "wicked  
Lord" William Byron; the Earl of Chesterfield; Charles Earl of  
Cornwallis; John Earl of Bute; the Duke of Devonshire; William Pitt  
(the elder); bibliophile George Earl of Macclesfield; George  
Grenville, future Prime Minister and father of the Stamp Act; etc., etc.

Document shows creases from having been folded into quarters (perhaps  
to fit into the pocket of a coronation attendee?)... ESTC locates  
copies at only 3 U.S. libraries (Harvard, Bancroft, Cleveland PL) and  
7 in the UK. Interestingly, the only edition ESTC shows is dated a  
year later, "MDCCLXII [1762]," which we can only assume is a typo.