Beschreibung:

Panorama - Queen Victoria. [Fores' Correct Representation of the State Procession on the Occasion of the August Ceremony of Her Majesty's Coronation, June 28th, 1838, Sixty Feet Long, London: 1838], hand-coloured aquatint in sections, heightened with gum arabic, joined and folded concertina style to form a continuous panoramic strip, each scene captioned beneath (first caption 'High Constable', last caption 'Life Guards'), left end of panorama with title printed vertically in French, lacking right end of panorama (with English title), some light dust-soiling, spotting and toning, final folded segment on right end somewhat rubbed, many folds either repaired/strengthened, or with short splits at ends, 3 with longer splits, height 10.3cm (4 ins), length approximately 1723cm (56.5 feet), affixed over original printed title label to front pastedown, also previously affixed over publisher's advert to rear pastedown but sometime lifted away, so publisher's advert is now visible, front pastedown with bookseller's ticket to upper corner, front hinge split (with approximately 2cm loss of panorama), original gilt decorated cloth with brass clasp, front cover with gilt title 'By authority, Fores' Coronation Procession', spotted and soiled with fading, joints cracked, some wear to extremities, oblong 8vo, together with: Robin's Panoramic Representation of the Queen's Royal Progress through the City of London, on the 9th November, 1837, London: Joseph Robins, 1837, hand-coloured lithograph in sections, heightened with gum arabic, joined and folded concertina style to form a continuous panoramic strip, each scene captioned beneath, split into two parts and loose in binding (but apparently complete), most folds with splits, many repaired with adhesive tape (mainly to recto), spotted and dust-soiled with some toning, height 9cm (3.5 ins), length 289.5cm (114 ins), printed front pastedown title and rear pastedown publisher's advert toned, front pastedown with some minor marks, original cloth, front cover with gilt title 'The Queen's Visit to the City', lightly soiled and rubbed, oblong 8vo, plus a defective copy of 'Key to W.E. Lockhart's (R.S.A.) Picture of the Jubilee Ceremony in Westminster Abbey, 21st June 1887 ...' First two items: Abbey, Life, 539 & 534 respectively. Fore's Coronation Procession: This copy is without the final (approximately) 17cm. Although the item describes itself as being 'sixty feet long' (1828 cm), the length of other copies found (those that appear to have been actually measured) varies between 1645-1800cm, with several copies measuring around 1700-1727cm. Therefore our copy, despite lacking the final short portion containing the English title and a very small portion at the front hinge, nevertheless appears to be similar to or only a few centimetres short of the expected length. Comparing to online images, this copy lacks just the final two groups of life guards at the right end, with the English imprint. The small missing portion (approximately 2cm) at the front hinge was likely lost when the left half of the panorama was sometime affixed to the front pastedown, presumably because the strip had split at the front hinge.