Next catalogue date and Platinum Jubilee closing.

 

 

Royal Luncheon to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II Guildhall 12 June Coronation Year MDMLIII. [Intro Page:] To Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. A Royal Luncheon given by The Corporation of the City of London at Guildhall Friday 12 June 1953 in Celebration of Her Majesty's Coronation. 

Designed & Printed at the Baynard Press, London. [1953.]
Printed letterpress, facsimile and photo-lithograph; embossed front cover; 4 sheet, double-side 4to. 280 x 205mm. 11 x 8".
The programme for the Royal Luncheon held at the Guildhall on Friday 12th June 1953, following her coronation 10 days previously; including the speeches, the musical programme, menu, list of toasts to tbe made, a picture of the Guildhall before damage by enemy action in December 1940, and a list of the Sub-Committee members. 

[Ref: 19156]   £60.00

Here in the UK we shall be celebrating the Queen's Platinum Jubilee  with a four day weekend Thursday 2nd - Sunday 5th June 2022.
We thought we'd commemorate the occasion with a Ten of the Best!
 
Please note Grosvenor Prints be closed Thursday 2nd June and Friday 3rd June.
 
Catalogue 117, consisting of mostly satire, will be out 20th June.
  Here's a sneak preview:


I Never Sarves a Hanimal So.
[n.d., c.1820.]
Coloured aquatint. Sheet 110 x 130mm (4¼ x 5¼"). Trimmed within plate.
A London street scene with 'Wapping Ned' trying to get his donkey to move without beating it.This illustrates a comic song ''An Answer to 'If I Had A Donkey''', which parodies the greater legal protection for donkeys than a man’s own family, caused by a judicial policy of non-interference in cases of domestic violence.
[Ref: 58252] 

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