Description of the Royal Coronation of King William IV and Queen Adelaide

Broadside printed with an account of the Coronation service of King William IV and Queen Adelaide in Westminster Abbey. The broadside is illustrated with a woodcut depicting the King at the moment of his crowning. At the bottom of the broadside is printed a ballad entitled 'The Coronation' titled with a woodcut illustration depicting Britannia.

Souvenir broadsides commemorating royal events and pageantry were a popular form of street literature in London. Mass printed by small back street printers, often based in the Seven Dials area of London they were sold cheaply by street hawkers and travelling pedlars. James Catnach, the most famous of the Seven Dials jobbing printers opened his printing business in Monmouth Court in 1813. On his death in 1842, the business was continued by his sister and her children.