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PINE, JOHN. The Tapestry Hangings of the House of Lords, representing the several Engagements between the English and Spanish Fleets in the memorable year MDLXXXVIII. Engraved title; 10 double-page plates of naval engagements, each within elaborate ornamental borders incorporating multiple portraits of prominent English participants; double-page map of the British Isles showing the route of the armada and 5 double-page pairs of coastal maps showing engagement locations, all within historiated allegorical borders; 2 double-page maps of the Cornwall and Devonshire coast and the Thames; all engraved by Pine. [6], 23, [1] pages, including subscribers' list. Folio, 574x392 mm, contemporary 1/2 calf with modern handwritten label on front cover, spine and cover corners heavily worn; light and mostly marginal foxing and soiling on title and engraved matter, title creased in lower inner corner and partly detached, vertical crease in left half of British Isles map. London: J. Pine, 1739
first edition. "The Lords set of ten huge hangings, designed by Hendrick Vroom (1563–1640) and depicting the defeat of the Spanish armada, hung in the house from 1650 until 1834, when they were destroyed by fire . . . Pine evidently regarded the armada prints as one of the major projects of his career, since he used his influence to ensure that the Copyright Act of 1735 gave him the exclusive right to copy the tapestries" (ODNB). Berlin Katalog 1677.
