Lot 143
Gauden (John) Eikon Basilike [graece]. The Pourtraicture of his Sacred Majestie in his Solitudes and Sufferings, 1649.
Hammer Price: £1,500
Description
⁂ Please note the description of this lot has changed ⁂ [Gauden (John)] Eikon Basilike [graece]. The Pourtraicture of his Sacred Majestie in his Solitudes and Sufferings, initial leaf with woodcut arms, engraved portrait frontispiece and folding engraved plate, small burn-hole in S3 just touching a couple of letters of text, tiny marginal worming (not affecting text), contemporary black sheep with gilt vignette of the king and a skull with thorny oval surround and crown at top, winged cherubs in corners, simple ruled spine with "C Rex" at head, handsome gilt gauffered edges, rubbed, small hole at foot of spine, lacking ties, [Wing E290], 8vo, 1649.
⁂ Attractive contemporary binding presumably executed for a royalist sympathiser.
Provenance: "Eliza Lorde her book" (ink inscription on recto of frontispiece); J. Blowers (ink name on front pastedown).
Description
⁂ Please note the description of this lot has changed ⁂ [Gauden (John)] Eikon Basilike [graece]. The Pourtraicture of his Sacred Majestie in his Solitudes and Sufferings, initial leaf with woodcut arms, engraved portrait frontispiece and folding engraved plate, small burn-hole in S3 just touching a couple of letters of text, tiny marginal worming (not affecting text), contemporary black sheep with gilt vignette of the king and a skull with thorny oval surround and crown at top, winged cherubs in corners, simple ruled spine with "C Rex" at head, handsome gilt gauffered edges, rubbed, small hole at foot of spine, lacking ties, [Wing E290], 8vo, 1649.
⁂ Attractive contemporary binding presumably executed for a royalist sympathiser.
Provenance: "Eliza Lorde her book" (ink inscription on recto of frontispiece); J. Blowers (ink name on front pastedown).