Queen Elizabeth's Coronation Book by Various Authors - 1953

Colorgravure Publication, Melbourne, 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Non paginated. Illustrated endpapers, being a map of the official route of the Coronation possession of her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Second. Photographic frontispiece of Queen Elizabeth the Second. The text is copiously illustrated with coloured photography and illustrations. Dark red boards with embossed Royal Lion on the front panel and gilt writing on the spine. Plain text dust wrapper, with Royal standard on the front panel with pink writing and it grey decoration with bone coloured background.  A Coronation book -- of Queen Elizabeth the Second, put out by the Melbourne publishing company Colorgravure just after the her Coronation. The dustjacket is chipped at the top of the spine, and has a 5 inch tear running parallel to the spine from the bottom left-hand corner, spotting along the left-hand edge of the front panel, small tear at the top of the rear fold over; the book shows no damage, and is free of annotations. This is the first Australian edition. Size: Folio (over 12" tall ). Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Category: History; Royalty; Inventory No: 0282274. .