The Book of the Court : Exhibiting the Origin, Peculiar Duties, and Privileges of the Several Ranks of the Nobility and Gentry

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This remarkable 1838 publication, dedicated to the soon-to-be-crowned Queen Victoria, is a review of state ceremonial and court etiquette, giving details of the royal family, and describing the titles, history and roles of all court officials, from the Poet Laureate and the Historiographer Royal to the Clerk of the Closet.