CHARLES I - A Large Declaration concerning the late Tumults in Scotland - (FIRST EDITION - 1639)

AUTHOR: CHARLES I (Walter Balcanquhall - editor).

TITLE: A Large Declaration concerning the late Tumults in Scotland from their first originals: Together with a Particular Deduction of the seditious Practices of the Prime Leaders and Covenanters: Collected out of their owne foule Acts and Writings: By which it doth plainly appeare, that Religion was onely pretended by those Leaders, but nothing lesse intended by them.

PUBLISHER: London: Printed by Robert Young, 1639.

DESCRIPTION: FIRST EDITION. 1 vol., (ii)430pp.(i), folio, 11-1/4" x 7-5/8", the issue with the side note on page 41, complete with the engraved frontis of Charles I and the final colophon leaf. Bound in fine contemporary full brown calf over cords, covers ruled in gilt, gilt corner pieces, gilt royal crest to both covers, edges of textblock tinted red.

CONDITION: Spine rebacked with the original spine laid down, ties replaced, minor damp stain to top edge of textblock otherwise largely clean and bright throughout, overall still a VERY GOOD copy.