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May 05, 1953 - The Queen's Coronation Bible Nears Completion. Hand Tooling The Cover In...

May 05, 1953 - The Queen's Coronation Bible Nears Completion. Hand Tooling The Cover In Gold Leaf: Work on the
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May 05, 1953 - The Queen's Coronation Bible Nears Completion. Hand Tooling The Cover In Gold Leaf: Work on the new Bible which is to be presented to H.M. The Queen at the Coronation ceremony by the Archbishop of Canterbury is being completed by craftsmen at the Oxford University Press. Started in February last year, the bible is now being bound in scarlet kevant leather with a white leather panel on front - designed by Mr. Lynton Lamb and worked on by Hosers. Sangorski and Suteliffe. The Bible runs into 1430 pages and was set up by one compositor only
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1953 AD (C20th AD)
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May 05, 1953 - The Queen's Coronation Bible Nears Completion. Hand Tooling The Cover In Gold Leaf: Work on the new Bible which is to be presented to H.M. The Queen at the Coronation ceremony by the Archbishop of Canterbury is being completed by craftsmen at the Oxford University Press. Started in February last year, the bible is now being bound in scarlet kevant leather with a white leather panel on front - designed by Mr. Lynton Lamb and worked on by Hosers. Sangorski and Suteliffe. The Bible runs into 1430 pages and was set up by one compositor only. Photo shows Mr. Edgar Turner of Forest Hill at work hand-tolling the cover of the Bible in Gold Leaf.

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20th century / photography / photograph / black and white / 20th century / 1950-1959 annees 50 50s

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