Eikon basilike : Le portrait du Roy de la Grand Bretagne. Faict de sa propre main durant sa solitude & ses souffrances... [etc.]
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Type of record: Book
Title: Eikon basilike : Le portrait du Roy de la Grand Bretagne. Faict de sa propre main durant sa solitude & ses souffrances... [etc.]
Other titles: Declaration du roy de la Grand Bretagne; Raisons du roy de la Grand Bretagne
Classmark: Anglo-French 2 1649/GAU
Additional creator(s): Gauden, John Bishop of Worcester (1605-1662) (Other); Charles king of England (1600-1649) (Other); Porrée, Jean Baptiste (1621-) (Other); Porrée, Jonas (Other)
Related people: Charles I, king of England, 1600-1649; Gauden, John; Charles; Porrée, Jean Baptiste; Porrée, Jonas
Publisher: chez Jean Berthelin
Publication city: A Rouen
Date(s): 1649
Language: French
Size and medium: [lx], 442 p
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/219714
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991011599169705181
Description
Purporting to be in the king's own words, but probably the work of John Gauden, based on a core of material which the King had himself composed. Cf. F.F. Madan. A new bibliography of the Eikon basilike. 1950. p.126-163.
Dedication signed Porrée.
Translation attributed to both Jean Baptiste Porrée and Jonas Porrée.
First French ed.
The "Declaration du roy de la Grand' Bretagne" and "Raisons du roy de la Grand' Bretagne", not listed in the "Table" are included in the pagination and signatures and have individual title-pages; that to the "Raisons" not being included in the pagination.
Pages 339, 378 and 417 wrongly numbered 239, 837 and 117.
Sign. Iv wrongly signed Iiv.
Title romanized from the Greek.
Madan 53; not in Almack.
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