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[Charles I (1600-1649)]. Eikon basilike: The Pourtraicture of His Sacred Majesty in His Solitudes and Sufferings. [London: no imprint], 1649.
8º (212 x 130mm). Woodcut royal arms on recto of first leaf, engraved portraits of Charles I and the Prince of Wales, folding engraved plate of the king at his devotions by W. Marshall. (Stains to bottom margin of first portrait, occasional spots.) Contemporary memorial binding of black goatskin, gilt fillet border on covers enclosing royal cypher ‘C.R.’ surmounted by a crown and with skull below, flat gilt-ruled spine, gilt board and page edges (spine rubbed and faded). Provenance: Sir Henry Hope Edwardes, 10th Baronet (1829-1900; bookplate).
CONTEMPORARY MEMENTO MORI BINDING FOR CHARLES I. There has been debate over the part played by John Gauden, bishop of Worcester, in ghost-writing the hugely popular spiritual autobiography of the king, published ten days after his death. According to Bryan Spinks in ODNB, 'the likelihood is that Gauden had a significant responsibility for Eikon basilike, but that his many enemies sought to deny it.' For an elaborate panelled binding enclosing the same Memento mori symbols, see M. Foot, The Henry Davis Gift, ii, 103. Madan 26; Wing E-308.
8º (212 x 130mm). Woodcut royal arms on recto of first leaf, engraved portraits of Charles I and the Prince of Wales, folding engraved plate of the king at his devotions by W. Marshall. (Stains to bottom margin of first portrait, occasional spots.) Contemporary memorial binding of black goatskin, gilt fillet border on covers enclosing royal cypher ‘C.R.’ surmounted by a crown and with skull below, flat gilt-ruled spine, gilt board and page edges (spine rubbed and faded). Provenance: Sir Henry Hope Edwardes, 10th Baronet (1829-1900; bookplate).
CONTEMPORARY MEMENTO MORI BINDING FOR CHARLES I. There has been debate over the part played by John Gauden, bishop of Worcester, in ghost-writing the hugely popular spiritual autobiography of the king, published ten days after his death. According to Bryan Spinks in ODNB, 'the likelihood is that Gauden had a significant responsibility for Eikon basilike, but that his many enemies sought to deny it.' For an elaborate panelled binding enclosing the same Memento mori symbols, see M. Foot, The Henry Davis Gift, ii, 103. Madan 26; Wing E-308.
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