EIKONOKLASTĒS IN ANSWER TO A BOOK INTITUL’D EIKON BASILIKĒ
Amsterdam: [s.n.], 1690. Second Edition. Octavo, [16], 207, [1] pages. In Very Good condition. Bound by Jon Robbins in full diced calf. Spine lightly tanned, very minor shelf wear. Archival repairs to first and last blank leaves. Text block age-toned and foxed. Scattered pencil marginalia. Light damp staining to upper margin through p. 74. The first leaf is blank. This copy is an example of the variant containing a separate unsigned leaf bound preceding the title page (A2) or following the final leaf (O8); in this copy it precedes the title page. This leaf contains "An advertisement" and a "Memorandum" by the earl of Anglesey supporting the claim that John Gauden, and not Charles I, was the author of the "Eikōn". It is not included in the above pagination statement. JR Consignment. Shelved Room G.
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NOTES
ESTC R13974; Wing M2115; Madan, F.F. New bibl. of the Eikon basilike, 162; Coleridge, K.A. Catalogue of the Milton collection in the Turnbull Library, 19; Shawcross, J. Milton, 350.
A reply to Gauden, John. Eikōn basilikē. Authorship of the Eik⁻on basilik⁻e was originally attributed to Charles I, but according to Madan (pp. 126-33) it was written by John Gauden who probably included some authentic writings of the king.