Histoire entiere & veritable du procez de Charles Stuart, Roy d'Angleterre. Contenant, en forme de journal, tout ce qui s'est faict & passé sur ce sujet dans le Parlement, & en la haute cour de justice; et la façon en laquelle il a esté mis à

KING CHARLES I . KING OF ENGLAND 1600 - 1649:

Verlag: mort Au mois de janvier /8 A quoy sont adjoustees quelqeues declarations du Parlement Le tout fidelement receüilly des pieces authentiques & traduit de l'anglois A Londres : imprimé par J John G Grismond l'an 1650, 1649

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First edition. 8vo. ( 139mm. ) Pp. [4], 1 - 102 [2] 105 -135 [3] 139 - 155 [1]. All edges gilt. Printed marginal notes. Very light foxing and age browning to the text, ( printer's ? ) ink smudge on divisional title page [ 137 ] ( i.e. I7 ) otherwise a generally clean copy. The first leaf is blank. Printer's name from Wing. " La declaration des deux maisons du Parlement d'Angleterre " and " La declaration des Communes d'Angleterre, assemblées en Parlement . " each have separate dated title page; pagination and register are continuous. A reissue ( ESTC R202413 ) has added preface and four final contents leaves, and a cancel title page with the words " A quoy sont adjoustées quelques declarations du Parlement ." added. The copy offered here has the cancel title page. Nineteenth century morocco, the spine with five raised bands, title lettered direct, gilt flowers in the panels. Marbled endpapers, front pastedown with Ex-libris plate of Hugh Scott-Charles, and evidence of another bookplate ( ? ) being removed , circular Ex-libris stamp of William A.S. Charles on verso of front endpaper, and repeated on the verso of the Titlepage. A contemporary account of the proceedings, trial and execution of King Charles 1st , the first English Monarch to be executed. He was accused of being a " tyrant, traitor and murderer; and a public and implacable enemy to the Commonwealth of England ." Overall a very good copy of a scarce book, rarely seen for sale. ESTC ( on-line 3 / 07 ) locates only seven copies in the UK - Cambridge University. Mitchell Library. Museum of London. National Library of Scotland. Oxford University. Sheffield University, Library. S. Mary's Seminary, New Oscott. Trinity College Library. However, many of these holding library catalogues indicate their copies are actually ESTC R202431 , with the pagination - [4], 155, [9]. Wing H2091. ESTC R202405. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 4516

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Titel: Histoire entiere & veritable du procez de ...

Verlag: mort Au mois de janvier /8 A quoy sont adjoustees quelqeues declarations du Parlement Le tout fidelement receüilly des pieces authentiques & traduit de l'anglois A Londres : imprimé par J John G Grismond l'an 1650

Erscheinungsdatum: 1649