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

Archive Print Item: BC Pol/EIK

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Type of record: Book

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

Other titles: Eikōn basilikē; Pourtraicture of His sacred Maiestie in his solitudes and sufferings

Level: Item

Classmark: BC Pol/EIK

Additional creator(s): Charles king of England (1600-1649) (Other); Gauden, John Bishop of Worcester (1605-1662) (Other)

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

Publisher: Printed [by Thomas Warren]

Publication city: [London]

Date(s): anno Dom. 1648 [i.e. 1649]

Language: English

Size and medium: [12], 269, [1] p

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/287905

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991002479149705181

Description

Authorship of the Eikon basilike was originally attributed to Charles I, but according to Madan (pp. 125-33) it was written by John Gauden who probably included some authentic writings of the king.


First 2 words of title in Greek characters.


Several pages misnumbered.


Place of publication from Wing; printer's name from Madan; year of publication given according to Lady Day dating.


Has folded engraved illustration preceding title page; identified as Madan frontispiece 14 (cf. Madan p. 179).


Signatures: A⁶ B-M¹² N⁴.


First and last leaves blank and rarely present; A6 known to exist in only two copies (cf. Madan).


Pourtraicture of His sacred Maiestie in his solitudes and sufferings.


Indexed in: Wing (2nd ed., 1994) E278; Madan 4; Almack 10, the copy with the ownership and another inscription of Henry Morris, St John's College, Oxford, 1650.

Additional description

Wants frontispiece, sigs A1 and N4 (blanks) and A6 (address to reader, rarely found). Wormholes affecting text, pp. 3-32. The gift of F.F. Madan. Deposited from the Brotherton Library

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