With Added Portrait After Van Dyck
[CHARLES I.]
Εἰκὼν Βασιλικὴ. The Pourtraicture of His Sacred Majestie in his Solitudes and Sufferings … [London, Royston], 1648.
8vo, pp. [8], 269, [1, blank]; added frontispiece portrait of Charles I by Peter de Jode II after Van Dyck; William Marshall’s folding engraved frontispiece bound before B1, apparently re-mounted with some restoration to lower margins and corner, offsetting to endpapers; a very good copy in nineteenth-century polished calf, the binding rather close to the text at gutter; boards and turn-ins gilt, spine gilt with raised bands, red morocco label; front board skilfully rejointed, light wear to rear joint and hinge; contemporary ownership inscription to title-page of [El]izabeth Cary, armorial bookplate of Edward Huth, Wykehurst Park.
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Εἰκὼν Βασιλικὴ. The Pourtraicture of His Sacred Majestie in his Solitudes and Sufferings …
First edition, third issue, with the corrected pagination of quire G and the spelling ‘repaied’ on p. 269.
‘[George] Thomason (d. 1666) received this third issue on ‘Feb. 9’, noting it as ‘the first impression’, and his unrivalled authority completes a chain of identification which no other edition can dispute’ (Madan).
The added portrait appears to be rare in this small format, set within a medallion (cf. NPG D18294); there is a matching engraving of Henrietta Maria, apparently part of a large series of royal portraits by de Jode after Van Dyke. We have traced copies at BM, Leuven, and NPG.
ESTC R10559; Wing E 270; Madan 1, ‘third issue’; Almack 2.