A vindication of K. Charles the Martyr
Subtitle: proving that His Majesty was the Author of Είκὼν Βασιλική. Against a memorandum, Said to be written by the Earl of Anglesey. And, Against the Exceptions of Dr. Walker and others [...]
Publisher: Printed for Richard Wilkin
Published: 1711
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 220
Description: <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Full title:</b> A vindication of K. Charles the Martyr: proving that His Majesty was the Author of Είκὼν Βασιλική. Against a memorandum, Said to be written by the Earl of Anglesey. And, Against the Exceptions of Dr. Walker and others. To which is added a Preface, Wherein the Bold and Insolent Assertions published in a Passage of Mr. Bayle’s Dictionary, relating to the present Controversy are Examined and Confuted. The Third Edition, with large Additions; together with some Original Letters of King Charles the First under his own Hand, never before Printed, and faithfully copied from the said Originals.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"> 8vo. pp. xl, 163, [1]. Half calf, rebacked. Portrait of King Charles inserted.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">Third edition of this work on the authorship of the ‘Eikon Basilikè,’ or ‘the King’s Book’ of the deposed and martyred Charles I, with sixty-four editions or discrete issues recorded in 1649 alone. The work was originally attributed to Charles I but was probably written by John Gauden based on a core of material which the king had himself composed. Up until today, the discussion about the authorship of the work has not been settled. The present work is the definitive version, ‘clearly intended to be the last word in the controversy [...] it is so much revised, and incorporates so much new material, as to be almost a new work’ (F. Madan, Books in manuscript: a short introduction to their study and use, with a chapter on records. London, 1893, 184).</span></p>