14 MYERS & Co., 59, High Holborn, London, W.C. 



KING CHARLES THE SECOND'S OWN COPY 



OF THE 1649 EDITION OF THE 



EIKON BASILIKE, 



IN A UNIQUE ROYAL BINDING BY SAMUEL MEARNE THE ROYAL BlNDKR. 



57 CHARLES I. Eikon Basilike. The Potirtraicture of His Sacred Majestic 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, no place or printer, 1649, 8vo, with the folding portrait of Charles I. at 

 prayer, by W. Marshall. Specially bound for King Charles II. in black morocco, 

 the sides line tooled in compartments, the inner having the crowned cypher of the 

 King at each corner, the centre of the front cover occupied by a contemporary 

 finely engraved oval portrait of Charles I. in state robes with crown, orb, and 

 sceptre enclosed by an ornamental gilt circle composed of the well-known Mearne 

 roll, on the lower cover is another contemporary portrait of Charles II. (a little 

 worn at bottom) within a similar gilt circle, back tooled in 7 compartments each 

 containing Charles II. 's crowned cypher as centre ornament, edges gilt over black, 

 black end papers, holes for tie strings. Preserved in a specially made case of dark 

 blue morocco, gilt border on sides with the royal cypher in the centre, back 

 emblematically tooled with the crowned rose, shamrock, thistle and royal cypher, 

 lined inside with purple 'watered silk, the lower part of the case surrounded by 

 a velvet mount to protect the book. To render it still more valuable there is 

 inserted in the centre of the upper cover a remarkably interesting relic of 

 Charles I. : one of the very rare chased silver tokens secretly worn by the 

 adherents of that unfortunate monarch, enclosed in crimson velvet and protected 

 by a glass case, ^75 



A unique copy of the famous " King's Book " and a Stuart relic of the highest historical interest 

 and value with the additional importance added of a later royal ownership. No other book is 

 known bound in this truly remarkable manner. It was evidently executed in accordance with 

 King Charles the Second's own wishes by the royal binder Samuel Mearne and is a line 

 example of his skill. Probably given by the King to one of his favourites. Some 160 years 

 later it came into the possession of the Rev. Thomas Raffles of Liverpool, the famous 

 Congregational Minister and Founder of the Congregational College at Manchester, who 

 presented it in 1812 to Edward Duke of Kent, Father of Queen Victoria, whose autograph 

 signature and signed note relating to the book are on the title page. There is also an 

 autograph note and description of the work by the Rev. T. Raffles on two of the fly-leaves. 

 The mourning character of the copy in its black morocco, black gilt edges and black end 

 leaves is particularly worthy of notice. Altogether a Royal Book whose interest and 

 importance it is impossible to over estimate, while the opportunity of securing it once lost can 

 never occur again. 



[See Illustration.] 



58 COLOURED AQUATINTS A SELECT COLLECTION or VIEWS AND RUINS IN 



ROME AND ITS VICINITY, recently executed from drawings made upon the spot, 

 London, n.d. (plates, </a/<v/ 1796-98), LARGE PAPER, folio, WITH 62 FINE FULL-PAGE 

 COLOURED AQUATINTS, original half red morocco, uncut (binding broken), 2 155 



59 COLOURED PLATES WILLIAMSON (CAPTAIN THOMAS) Oriental Field Sports ; 



being a description of the Wild Sports of the East, interspersed with Anecdotes, 

 London, for H. R. Young, 1819, 2 vols, 410, WITH 40 BEAUTIFUL COLOURED 

 PLATES AFTER DRAWINGS BY SAMUEL HOWITT, engraved by the best artists, with 

 E. Orme's name as publisher on each, BEAUTIFULLY BOUND IN CONTEMPORARY 

 STRAIGHT GRAINED CRIMSON MOROCCO, the sides elaborately tooled in gold and blind 

 with rich ornamental borders, and lines, five of the compartments of each back contain 



A SPIRITED VIGNETTE IN GOLD OF A TIGER SPRINGING UPON A DEER, IN THE STYE OF 



GOSDEN, inside borders, gilt edges, 10 IDS 



A CHOICE COPY OF A RARE SPORTING BOOK. The fine full-page coloured plates depict in a 

 spirited manner the various exciting sports in vogue in India at the commencement of las. 

 century, including hunting the hog, tiger, elephant, buffalo, leopard, bear, wolf, etc., etc. 



