Lot 226: LONDON 1725 -- PINE, John (1690-1756). The Procession and Ceremonies Observed at the Time of the Installation of the Knights Companions of the Most Honourable Military Order of the Bath: Upon Thursday June 17, 1725 . London: Printed by S. Palmer

LONDON 1725 -- PINE, John (1690-1756). The Procession and Ceremonies Observed at the Time of the Installation of the Knights Companions of the Most Honourable Military Order of the Bath: Upon Thursday June 17, 1725. London: Printed by S. Palmer and J. Huggonson for John Pine, 1730.

2o (505 x 377 mm). French and English title-pages printed in red and black each with an engraved vignette, parallel text in French and English, list of subscribers. 20 engraved plates, all but one double-page, and 10 engraved head- and tail-pieces by JOHN PINE after JOSEPH HIGHMORE. (Text leaved mounted on guards.) Contemporary speckled calf (rebacked preserving original spine, spine worn). Provenance: Foley (armorial bookplate with motto "ut prosim").

In 1725 John Pine asked Joseph Highmore (1692-1780) to make 20 drawings for engravings of The Most Honourable Military Order of the Bath, a British chivalric order revived as a military order by George I, King of England on 18 May 1725. The formal ceremony celebrating the installation of knights conferred by the King was held at Westminster Abbey on 17 June 1725. The text of this work, written by JOHN ANSTIS, Garter, Principal King of Arms, describes the procession to the chapel by the knights, the ceremony at the chapel, and the banquet served after the ceremonies. The plates illustrate the participants of the procession, including the esquires and the knights companions along with their coat-of-arms, the attire of the knights, and the seating chart and "plan of the entertainment" at the supper. Brunet III, p. 750; Graesse V, p.298.

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