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THE PROPERTY OF THE LATE KENNETH JOHN HEWETT

K.J. Hewett (1919-1994) was a renowned London dealer in ethnographic art and antiquities. Other books from his library were offered in these rooms on 21 March 2018.
Lot 181

CHARLES I
[GAUDEN (JOHN)] Eikon Basilike [in Greek]. The Pourtraicture of His Sacred Maiestie in His Solitudes and Sufferings, [London, no publisher], 1649

4 December 2019, 11:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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CHARLES I

[GAUDEN (JOHN)] Eikon Basilike [in Greek]. The Pourtraicture of His Sacred Maiestie in His Solitudes and Sufferings, full-page woodcut Royal Arms, 2 engraved portraits, folding engraved plate (with "Explanation of the Embleme" in Latin and English, short tear), manuscript transcription in an early hand of the Marquess of Montrose's verse on the execution of Charles ("Great, good, and just, could I relate/Our miserys, and try too rigide fate...") on final blank, with an incomplete copy of the same poem on fly-leaf in another early hand, 2 gatherings slightly loose, contemporary black morocco gilt, elaborately tooled panelled sides and spine, g.e., preserved in velvet-lined caser [ESTC R34429; Madan 25], 8vo, [London, no publisher], 1649

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Provenance: Alice Symonds, early signature beneath 2-lines of struck-through verse ("When that I found your love....") on front free endpaper; Cotton Symonds, inscription "In memory of A.P. who died July 23d. 1725/ Cotton Symonds" on leaf with woodcut arms; R.P. Kamp, nineteenth century bookplate.

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