* King Charles III by Gerald Scarfe
Limited edition print, numbered and signed by the artist, from a total edition of only 10 copies to mark the Coronation of King Charles III. The artist, illustrator and cartoonist Gerald Scarfe has a career that has spanned more than 60 years. Scarfe established himself as a satirical cartoonist working for Punch magazine and Private Eye during the early sixties. He was political cartoonist for the Sunday Times for 50 years, and for The New Yorker magazine for 15 years.
Exclusive to Peter Harrington
* The Crown Jewels and Other Regalia in the Tower of London, 1953, by Major-General H.D.W. Sitwell
Limited first edition of this work on England's crown jewels, number 43 of only 99 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the author, with 40 photographs—eight in color—of crowns, orbs, sceptres, swords, plates, and other royal trappings, in publisher's deluxe morocco-gilt, and with the original dust jacket and slipcase. The joint undertaking of Major-General H.D.W. Sitwell, Keeper of the Jewel House in the Tower of London, and editor Clarence Winchester.
From Bauman Rare Books
* A Poem on the Coronation of King William and Queen Mary, 1689
First and only edition, very scarce, of an anonymous poem in praise of William III and Mary, who were crowned on 11 April 1689. The author, who suggests he does not normally trifle with verse, claims it as the first poem to appear on the coronation: ‘these Lines were written calente calamo ... call’d for by the Press, in so much hast that they were scarce e’re reviewed before they were Printed ... [and] they were made before any others came out’.
The work opens with an attack on the poetic flatterers of James I who now have no words for the new monarchs; and reserves particular effulgence for Gilbert Burnet and Henry Compton, Bishop of London, who conducted the coronation (Sancroft, Archbishop of Canterbury, had refused, as he still supported the ousted James).
From Bernard Quaritch
