2-361-823 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Royal prerogative: title page from Eikon Basilike, 1649 (1956). Eikon Basilike is an autobiography attributed to King Charles I of England. It was published ten days after Charles' execution. The frontispiece, engraved by William Marshall, depicts the king as a Christian martyr. From Picture Post Library. A print from Ideas, a volume about the origin and early history of many things, common and less common, essential and inessential, by Readers Union, the Grosvenor Press, London, 1956.