English Civil War. [King Charles the Martyr]: [Eikon Basilik...

Hammer

£500

English Civil War. [King Charles the Martyr]: [Eikon Basilike], The Povrtraictvre (sic) of His Sacred Majestie (sic) in His Solitudes and Svfferings (sic), first edition, third state, [London]: [Printed by John Grismond for Richard Royston], 1648, [i.e. 1649], double-page frontispiece engraved by William Marshall, complete, collating: [viii], 269pp; i.e. A⁴, B-R⁸, S⁷, O1 is repaired, bound in contemporary black sombre morocco gilt, the centre of each cover blocked in gilt by a shaped and scrolling monstrance, and flanked by alternating arrangements of an E/F monogram, fan shaped corner-pieces within the dentil double-fillet, flat spine, rubbed and split, but holding, all edges gilt, 8vo, [Wing E270] 

Provenance: 1) Edmund Ferrers, Attorney of London; his monogrammed binding and ink manuscript ownership inscription to recto endpaper: Edmund Ferrers/His Booke/August the 3rd 1656. 2) R:d Stanley, second-half 18th c MS inscription, below which is the later pencil annotation: BA 1760/MA 1764, therefore, possibly Richard Stanley of Much Hadham, Hertfordshire (d. 1810), barrister, Recorder of Hertford from 1780, and a Senior Bencher of the Inner Temple. 3) The Reverend John Graham (1794-1865), Master of Christ's College, Cambridge, and later Bishop of Chester; John Graham inscription, later sold at his sale, Sothebys's, March 8th to 13th March, 1866, lot 318, for 7/1 to 4) James Beck; ownership and purchase inscription, dated 9th March, 1866. 5) Charles Braithwaite, Paint Merchant, Church Street, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, 1932-1960; inscribed in blue biro.