The Crown Jewels of England

The regalia of England described in a Cassell edition limited to fourteen hundred copies, in the reign of George V.

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1911Published
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Published by Cassell & Co. in a limited edition of fourteen hundred copies — nine hundred for England and five hundred for the United States — and opening with Sir Luke Fildes's painting of His Majesty George V.

It is an account of the Crown Jewels: the crowns, the orb, the sceptres, the swords, the ampulla and spoon, and the great stones that have moved between them.

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