EIKON BASILIKE. THE POURTRAICTURE OF HIS SACRED MAJESTIE IN ...

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EIKON BASILIKE. THE POURTRAICTURE OF HIS SACRED MAJESTIE IN HIS SOLITUDES AND SUFFERINGS: TOGETHER WITH HIS PRIVATE PRAYERS, USED IN THE TIME OF HIS RESTRAINT, AND DELIVERED TO D. JUXON, BISHOP OF LONDON, IMMEDIATELY BEFORE HIS DEATH, full leather, gilt embossed ‘CR’ with crown and skull to front and back covers, laid paper, foldout frontispiece of Charles I at prayer, further portrait frontispiece and portrait plate, London 1649, with Wilson (A), THE HISTORY OF GREAT BRITAIN, BEING THE LIFE AND REIGN OF KING JAMES I, RELATING TO WHAT PASSED FROM HIS FIST ACCESS TO THE CROWN, TILL HIS DEATH, first edition, full leather, applied hand-written title label to spine, laid paper, engraved frontispiece, printed Richard Lownds, London 1653 (2)

Provenance: The Estate of Lord Kenyon, Gredington.

Note: The Eikon Basilike (Portrait of the King) is an autobiography written by Charles I. It was published on his death in 1649 and became widely circulated despite vigorous attempts to suppress it. The book fostered the image of Charles as a just, peace-loving and pious king and gave him the status of a martyr.