PINE, JOHN, engraver. The Tapestry Hangings of the House of Lords: representing the several engagements between the English and Spanish fleets in the ever memorable year MDLXXXVIII. London: Sold by J. Pine 1739 [-1740]. Large folio, 540 x 370mm. (21 1/4 x 14 1/2in.), contemporary English mottled calf gilt, spine, later endpapers, contemporary English mottled calf gilt, spine, edges and corners badly worn, covers rubbed, later endpapers, upper corners very faintly dampstained throughout. Engraved title, letterpress dedication, 2 pp. subscribers, 24 pp. text, 3 uncolored engraved double-page maps (Cornwall & Devon with military encampments, the Thames with defences and the British Isles with fleet movements); 5 double-page engraved charts and 10 double-page engraved views after Lempriere and Gravelot printed in green within broad ornamental borders printed in black with medallion portraits, scenes, etc.

PINE, JOHN, engraver. The Tapestry Hangings of the House of Lords: representing the several engagements between the English and Spanish fleets in the ever memorable year MDLXXXVIII. London: Sold by J. Pine 1739 [-1740]. Large folio, 540 x 370mm. (21 1/4 x 14 1/2in.), contemporary English mottled calf gilt, spine, later endpapers, contemporary English mottled calf gilt, spine, edges and corners badly worn, covers rubbed, later endpapers, upper corners very faintly dampstained throughout. Engraved title, letterpress dedication, 2 pp. subscribers, 24 pp. text, 3 uncolored engraved double-page maps (Cornwall & Devon with military encampments, the Thames with defences and the British Isles with fleet movements); 5 double-page engraved charts and 10 double-page engraved views after Lempriere and Gravelot printed in green within broad ornamental borders printed in black with medallion portraits, scenes, etc.

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PINE, JOHN, engraver. The Tapestry Hangings of the House of Lords: representing the several engagements between the English and Spanish fleets in the ever memorable year MDLXXXVIII. London: Sold by J. Pine 1739 [-1740]. Large folio, 540 x 370mm. (21 1/4 x 14 1/2in.), contemporary English mottled calf gilt, spine, later endpapers, contemporary English mottled calf gilt, spine, edges and corners badly worn, covers rubbed, later endpapers, upper corners very faintly dampstained throughout. Engraved title, letterpress dedication, 2 pp. subscribers, 24 pp. text, 3 uncolored engraved double-page maps (Cornwall & Devon with military encampments, the Thames with defences and the British Isles with fleet movements); 5 double-page engraved charts and 10 double-page engraved views after Lempriere and Gravelot printed in green within broad ornamental borders printed in black with medallion portraits, scenes, etc.

[With:]

Five additional double-page engravings by John Pine, published 1749-1750, showing interiors of the Houses of Parliament and a portion of the first plate with a handcolored "Copy of the Illumination of a Charter granted to the Provost & College of Eton."; bound up with the preceding.

Provenance: Richard Lane Freer, bookplate -- Pull Court Library, booklabel -- Harrison D. Horblit, bookplate.