[Fine Binding | Henry Sotheran | Extra Illustrated] Charles I Unavailable with the cream linen spine

with the cream linen spine unusually fresh due to its protection over the years

(Most copies only have a small number of illustrations that have been colored

the only print extant of it

Limited to 30 copies on Japanese paper

[Fine Binding | Henry Sotheran | Extra Illustrated] Charles I Unavailable with the cream linen spineSkelton, Sir John. Charles I. London, [et al]: Goupil & Co., 1898. The volume was published with a color engraved portrait frontispiece and 24 tissue guarded engraved plates, and it has been expanded to 2 volumes with the addition of 150 illustrations, inlaid to size, throughout the text. Included are primarily engravings and mezzotints from the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries (a few examples mentioned below). A second title page noting the extra