[Eikon Basilike], The Povrtraictvre (sic) of His Sacred Maje...

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[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], pp: two-page frontispiece engraved by William Marshall (fl. 1617-1649), [8], 269 (quire N erroneously paginated, 193/194 repaired), contemporary mid-17th century black morocco gilt, the covers centred by a shaped monstrance with leafy scrolling finials and flanked by alternating arrangements of E/F, fan-shaped cornerpieces within the panel, the exterior of intersecting double-fillets with dentil bands, flat spine, all edges gilt, 8vo, [1] Provenance: 1) Edmund Ferrers, Attorney of London, his monogrammed binding and ink MS ownership inscription to recto endpaper: Edmund Ferrers/His Booke/August the 3rd 1656; 2) R:d Stanley, second-half 18th century ink MS ownership inscription, below which is the later pencil annotation BA 1760/MA 1764, therefore possibly Richard Stanley of Much Hadham, Hertfordshire (d. 1810), BA 1760, MA 1763 barrister, Recorder of Hertford from 1780, Senior Bencher of the Inner Temple; 3) The Rev. John Graham (1794-1865), Bishop of Chester and Cambridge academic; 4) sold, Sotheby's, Bishop of Chester's Sale, March 8th to 13th 1866, Lot 318, 7/- to; 5) James Beck, ink MS ownerhsip and purchase note dated March 9 1866; 6) Charles Braithwaite, Paint Merchant, Church St, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, 1932-1960, inscribed in blue biro.