1.) JOHANNESBURG CORONATION CELEBRATIONS, JUNE 1902, OFFICIAL PROGRAMME 2.) THE CORONATION: A TRIBUTE FROM SOUTH AFRICA (1902)

1.) JOHANNESBURG CORONATION CELEBRATIONS, JUNE 1902, OFFICIAL PROGRAMME

First edition published by Gilchrist & Powell, Johannesburg, 1902.

64pp. Portraits. Illustrated. Contains a gold mine of vintage early Johannesburg period adverts.

Printed silk on card binding. Pink endpapers foxed. Contents clean. New cloth spine.

The coronation of King Edward VII was a big event as it had been sixty-four years since the last sovereign had been crowned. Most people then living had never witnessed such a thing and celebrations were held over the whole of the Commonwealth.

Here is an original official programme for the coronation celebrations that were held in boom town Johannesburg, founded only sixteen years earlier.

The program for the three-day event includes the opening ceremony, name list of orchestra members, name list of chorus singers, grand open-air gymnastic display, war dance (in full war paint), by 200 full-blooded Zulus, procession regulations, route map of the procession, fireworks and pyrotechnics display, a grand torchlight procession and much more.

Very scarce early Johannesburg publication. A single copy was located in the Johannesburg Public Library during the national bibliographical survey. (See: SABIB Vol.II, page 683)

2.) THE CORONATION: A TRIBUTE FROM SOUTH AFRICA by Arthur Vine Hall

First edition published by T. Maskew Miller, Cape Town, 1902.

Publisher's purple card wraps with gilt titles on front panel. Very good condition.

Poem on the occasion of the coronation of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra in 1902.