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The Procession and Ceremonies Observed at the Time of the Installation of the Knights Companions of the Most Honourable Military Order of the Bath. London: Printed S. Palmer and J. Huggonson for John Pine 1730, titles in French and English 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, 10 engraved head and tail-pieces by Pine after J. Highmore, numerous decorative engraved initials, upper hinge cracked and lower hinge repaired, contemporary panelled calf, neatly rebacked, slight wear to board edges, slim folio Provenance: William Charles De Meuron, Earl Fitzwilliam (bookplate to upper pastedown), John L. Nevinson acquired volume in 1948 at the Sotheby's Fitzwilliam sale (Wentworth Woodhouse), and Claude Blair FSA, OBE, CVO (1922-2010), the eminent scholar of European arms and armour and historic metalwork, funerary sculpture, English parish churches and the decorative arts. He was Keeper at the Department of Metalwork, Victoria and Albert Museum, from 1972-82. (1)