29th Nov, 2023 10:00

Books & Works on Paper
 
  Lot 77
 

Magna Carta. This Plate being a correct Copy of King John's Great Charter…,[1733]

Magna Carta.

By Permission of [the] Trustees of the Cottonian Library. This Plate being a correct Copy of King John's Great Charter…,

engraved facsimile of the 1215 Magna Carta, engraved by John Pine, single sheet printed on vellum, engraved text in the large central panel, a column on either side of text with a series of 25 hand-coloured coats of arms of the Barons, heading and dedication panel, and at the foot a panel containing notes and a representation of the remains of King John’s Great Seal, a fine bright copy, image 695 x 480mm., borders trimmed to 710 x 495mm., mounted on acid-free board., a fine copy, Sold by J. Pine Engraver against little Britain in Aldersgate Street and by the Booksellers of London and Westminster, [1733].

First printing of the original text of Magna Carta.“… a sacred text, the nearest approach to an irrepealable ‘fundamental statute’ that England has ever had.” - Pollock and Maitland, 1.173. A fine engraving of the most celebrated legal document in the English-speaking world, taken from one of the two original copies owned by Sir Robert Cotton, now in the British Museum.

Sold for £15,000

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