GIFTS 96 Bound For The Chapel Royal Of King George II At Hampton Court 152(GEORGE II) ANONYMOUS. A Collection of Anthems, as the same are now performed in his Majesty’s Chapels Royal, &c. London, 1736. Octavo, contemporary full mottled calf gilt, custom clamshell box. $6500 Second edition of this collection of anthems, bound for King George II, with royal monogram and “Chapel Royal, Hampton Court” as a gilt centerpiece on the front and rear covers, with crowned fleurons at the corners—the Walpole-Caulfield copy. A number of copies of this anthology were bound for the Chapel Royal at Hampton Court; King George II was the last monarch to reside in this palace. Beyond the Hampton Court provenance, this copy has a further distinguished lineage, having been in the libraries of the first Prime Minister of England Robert Walpole (1676-1745); librarian of Queen’s College, Cork, Richard Caulfield (1823-87); antiquarian and photographer Robert Day (1836-1914); William Neville; author and singer Dorothy Moulton Mayer (1886-1974), with their bookplates to pastedown and flyleaves. First published in 1724. Interior clean. Joints tender, cords holding; light wear to extremities. Very good. The Workes Of King Charles I, 1658, With His Famous Eikon Basilike 151CHARLES I. Reliquiae Sacrae Carolinae: The Workes of that Great Monarch and Glorious Martyr King Charles the Ist. BOUND WITH: Eikon Basilike. ISSUED WITH: The Papers. London, 1658. Three printings in one. Small thick octavo, contemporary full calf rebacked. $3200 Fourth edition, second issue, of King Charles’ Works, with frontispiece portrait engraved by William Marshall, bound together with a later edition of the Eikon Basilike (The King’s Image) and an account of the trial, in contemporary binding stamped with the royal cipher. “The literary ability of the King is beyond question” (Allibone I:370). “A few hours after the King’s execution, his Eikon Basilike was in the hands of the people… Had it appeared a week sooner, it might have preserved the King” (Malcolm Laing). It very quickly ran through over forty editions. “So marvelous was its effect, that contemporary authorities declare that nothing but the Government’s ingenious and persistent condemnations of the work prevented an immediate restoration of the crown” (Almack, 3). Small paper repair to verso of frontispiece. Light age-wear to contemporary calf, royal cipher on front cover particularly clear and bright. Scarce.
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