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Eikōn basilikē : The pourtraicture of His Sacred Majestie in his solitudes and sufferings

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Type of record: Book

Title: Eikōn basilikē : The pourtraicture of His Sacred Majestie in his solitudes and sufferings

Other titles: The pourtraicture of His Sacred Majestie in his solitudes and sufferings

Level: Item

Classmark: BC Pol/EIK

Additional creator(s): Gauden, John (1605-1662) (Other); Charles (1600-1649) (Other)

Related people: Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649; Gauden, John; Charles

Publisher: [printed by John Grismond for Richard Royston]

Publication city: [London]

Date(s): 1648

Language: English

Size and medium: [8], 269 p

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/204144

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991010222579705181

Description

Printer and publisher's names from Madan; publication year given according to Lady Day dating.


Identified by Madan as "second edition" with 2 square blocks added to title-page and text reset; epigram has mis-spelling "mali" for "mala".


Purporting to be in the king's own words, but probably the work of John Gauden.


Pagination irregular.


Wing E272; Almack 4; Madan 2.

Additional description

Broad stub of frontispiece, guarded in, remains facing p. 1, and a frontispiece (no.1, state i, ii, or iii, but with roof panels cut off) has been guarded in facing flyleaf. Alterations in MS on pp. 42, 49, 53 and 59. Ms inscription on back of frontispiece reading My God my God why hast thou forsaken . With signatures of Mary Lees (p. 1), William Cotgrave (p. 33), and Thomas Todd (facing p. 1 and on p. 33). Deposited from the Brotherton Library. The gift of F.F. Madan

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