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MAGNA CARTA By Permission of [...the named...] Trustees of the Cottonian Library. This Plate being a Correct Copy of King John's Great Charter... Engraved Facsimile of the 1215 Magna Carta, Sold by J. Pine... and by the Booksellers of London and Westminster, [1733, but later]
24 June 2015, 11:00 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £6,500 inc. premium
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MAGNA CARTA
By Permission of [...the named...] 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, engraved central panel of text, the vertical borders decorated with by a series of 25 hand-coloured coats-of-arms of the Barons, hand-coloured representation of the remains of King John's Great Seal in the lower border, all panels surrounded by hand-coloured oak leaf and acorn borders, old fold marks resulting in a few small holes at central crease, 2 short marginal tears, 695 x 480mm., Sold by J. Pine... and by the Booksellers of London and Westminster, [1733, but later]
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Engraved facsimile of the Magna Carta, "a sacred text, the nearest approach to an irrepealable "fundamental statute" that England has ever had" (Pollock and Maitland, History of English Law), and the most celebrated legal document in the English-speaking world. The engraving commissioned from John Pine (1690-1756), following the fire at the Cottonian Library in 1731, which resulted in the only copy known with King John's seal being severely damaged. It was Pine's copy that was used by William Blackstone for his translation in 1759.





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