The Queen's Diamonds
Title
The Queen's Diamonds
Creator
Hugh Roberts, book's author
Publisher
London: Royal Collection Publications
Date
2012
Contributor
Madison Theodore researched and wrote the event description in 2018.
Description
For a description of the book, please click on the image of the event label/description or scroll to the bottom of the page for the section entitled "Text" for a transcription of the attached document.
Subject
Art
Identifier
SPECIAL NK7415 .G7 R63 2012
Language
English, book's contents
English, event description
English, event description
Relation
To see this book on November 15, 2018 in the “Event Photographs” Collection, please go here [Photograph of Books] 05454 and here [Photograph of Books] IMG_0582.
This is a curator favorite in the "Beautiful Books" Highlights Collection.
This is a curator favorite in the "Beautiful Books" Highlights Collection.
Text
Transcription of event description:
THE QUEEN'S DIAMONDS | HUGH ROBERTS | LONDON: ROYAL COLLECTION PUBLICATIONS | 2012
This book has a variegated-grey dust jacket with a large 3D image of a tiara that is a wrap-around design from the inside frap front to the back cover. The title is in large white text, with the author’s name in smaller white text. The spine of the dust jacket features a 3D diamond brooch at the top, with the title and author’s name printed in white. The back cover has a portrait of Queen Elizabeth II wearing her jewelry. The flaps of the dust jacket contain an image of the Queen when she was younger wearing some of the jewelry featured in the book, as well as a 3D image of a necklace featured in the book. The book’s binding is a grey cloth with the title stamped in white on the front cover, and the title and author’s name stamped in white on the spine. All these were printed on an ink jet printer.
The endpapers are printed in a grey brocade pattern on paper. There is a large variety of images throughout this book, with some being photographs of the royal family, some paintings, and others are 3D photographs of the jewels. These 3D images are the most mesmerizing, as the jewelry appears to pop off the page. There is a blue-grey ribbon bookmark glued into the headband.
The Queen’s Diamonds is one of 3,000 volumes donated by Mrs. Marifrances Engelhardt after Hurricane Matthew (2016) flooded her home. About 240 books are in Special Collections. During WWII she served in Spain in the diplomatic corps and married a well-known foreign correspondent, through whom she met Ernest Hemingway and Orson Wells. Sometime after her second marriage she settled in St. Augustine. When shown a book from her collection, despite her advanced years, she remembered who in her family owned it or gave it to her, and whether or not she enjoyed reading it. Mrs. Engelhardt died on April 18, 2017.
THE QUEEN'S DIAMONDS | HUGH ROBERTS | LONDON: ROYAL COLLECTION PUBLICATIONS | 2012
This book has a variegated-grey dust jacket with a large 3D image of a tiara that is a wrap-around design from the inside frap front to the back cover. The title is in large white text, with the author’s name in smaller white text. The spine of the dust jacket features a 3D diamond brooch at the top, with the title and author’s name printed in white. The back cover has a portrait of Queen Elizabeth II wearing her jewelry. The flaps of the dust jacket contain an image of the Queen when she was younger wearing some of the jewelry featured in the book, as well as a 3D image of a necklace featured in the book. The book’s binding is a grey cloth with the title stamped in white on the front cover, and the title and author’s name stamped in white on the spine. All these were printed on an ink jet printer.
The endpapers are printed in a grey brocade pattern on paper. There is a large variety of images throughout this book, with some being photographs of the royal family, some paintings, and others are 3D photographs of the jewels. These 3D images are the most mesmerizing, as the jewelry appears to pop off the page. There is a blue-grey ribbon bookmark glued into the headband.
The Queen’s Diamonds is one of 3,000 volumes donated by Mrs. Marifrances Engelhardt after Hurricane Matthew (2016) flooded her home. About 240 books are in Special Collections. During WWII she served in Spain in the diplomatic corps and married a well-known foreign correspondent, through whom she met Ernest Hemingway and Orson Wells. Sometime after her second marriage she settled in St. Augustine. When shown a book from her collection, despite her advanced years, she remembered who in her family owned it or gave it to her, and whether or not she enjoyed reading it. Mrs. Engelhardt died on April 18, 2017.
Original Format
Book / Unpublished Print Document
Collection
Citation
Hugh Roberts, book's author, “The Queen's Diamonds,” Beautiful Books in Flagler College's Special Collections, accessed May 4, 2024, https://beautifulbooks.omeka.net/items/show/58.