Charles I

Estimate

2,500 - 3,500 USD

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Description

[Eikon Basilike:] The Pourtraicture of His Sacred Majestie in His Solitude and Sufferings. [London]: Reprinted [by William Dugard] in R.M., Anno Dom. 1648 [i.e. 1649]
Paper, Ink, Leather

8vo (6 1/4 x 4 in.; 159 x 102 mm). Title within border of printer's ornaments, first two words of title printed in Greek, engraved portrait of Charles I [after Van Dyke], supplied, cut round and mounted on verso of front free endpaper, a portion of the engraving of Charles I at prayer by William Marshall mounted on a blank and inserted opposite A4; without engraved portrait original to this edition, small loss to bottom margin of G8 not affecting text. Contemporary brown morocco, sides double-filleted gilt, fleur-de-lys cornerpieces, central arms of James II, smooth spine double-filleted gilt forming nine compartments, plain endpapers, edges gilt, brass clasps; spine slightly faded, ear of one clasp broken off.

Provenance

King James II (arms on binding and lengthy note on front endpapers) — Elizabeth Ashhurst (early signature on front free endpaper) — Frederick, Duke of York (sale, May 1827) — George Kenyon, 2nd Baron Kenyon, (1776–1855; acquisition note on rear pastedown signed "Lord Kenyon"). acquisition: Bernard Quaritch

Literature

Wing E277; ESTC R235438; Madan 14, second issue

Catalogue Note

A fine copy in a handsome and well-preserved binding bearing the arms of James II. Bridges is perhaps now best known for having coined the following aphorism within this vast 1,514 page tract: "If they pay a penie or two pence more for the reddinesse of them .. let them looke to that, a foole and his money is soone parted."