Royal binding; Gunpowder Plot. Prayers and Thanksgiving to be used by all the Kings Majesties loving Subjects, for the Happy Deliverance of His Majestie, the Queen, Prince, and States of the Parliament , from the most Traiterous and Bloody intended Massacre by Gun-powder, the first of November, 1605, Robert Barker and assigns of John Bill 1640, woodcut title device, headpiece and floriated initials, text in black letter, marginal damp-staining, front free endpaper inscribed 'H L Hobart, Dean of Windsor, Nov. 5 1834, The Gift of Josiah French, Lay Clerk', engraved Hobart family bookplate with Hobart bull, all edges gilt, contemporary red goatskin for Charles II by Samuel Mearne spine richly gilt with ear-of-corn and floral motifs, concentric French fillet frames to covers enclosing large gilt arms of Charles II to centre and his cipher to corners, slightly rubbed and marked, red silk ties perished, 4to (19.2 x 14.5 cm) (Qty: 1) ESTC S93941; STC 16502. Provenance: Charles II (1630-1685), king of England, Scotland and Ireland (armorial binding, by royal binder Samuel Mearne ; presented on 5 November 1834 by Josiah French (1794-1850), lay clerk of St George's Chapel, Windsor, to Henry Hobart (1774-1846), Dean of Windsor (presentation inscription); thence by descent (Hobart family bookplate). STC conjectures a date of 1606 for the first publication of this pamphlet, with a slightly variant title (commencing 'Prayers and Thankesgiving ... '). All editions are rare, with only a handful of copies traced at auction over the last century.
Royal binding; Gunpowder Plot. Prayers and Thanksgiving to be used by all the Kings Majesties loving Subjects, for the Happy Deliverance of His Majestie, the Queen, Prince, and States of the Parliament , from the most Traiterous and Bloody intended Massacre by Gun-powder, the first of November, 1605, Robert Barker and assigns of John Bill 1640, woodcut title device, headpiece and floriated initials, text in black letter, marginal damp-staining, front free endpaper inscribed 'H L Hobart, Dean of Windsor, Nov. 5 1834, The Gift of Josiah French, Lay Clerk', engraved Hobart family bookplate with Hobart bull, all edges gilt, contemporary red goatskin for Charles II by Samuel Mearne spine richly gilt with ear-of-corn and floral motifs, concentric French fillet frames to covers enclosing large gilt arms of Charles II to centre and his cipher to corners, slightly rubbed and marked, red silk ties perished, 4to (19.2 x 14.5 cm) (Qty: 1) ESTC S93941; STC 16502. Provenance: Charles II (1630-1685), king of England, Scotland and Ireland (armorial binding, by royal binder Samuel Mearne ; presented on 5 November 1834 by Josiah French (1794-1850), lay clerk of St George's Chapel, Windsor, to Henry Hobart (1774-1846), Dean of Windsor (presentation inscription); thence by descent (Hobart family bookplate). STC conjectures a date of 1606 for the first publication of this pamphlet, with a slightly variant title (commencing 'Prayers and Thankesgiving ... '). All editions are rare, with only a handful of copies traced at auction over the last century.
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