[Rarebooks] fa: TITUS OATES - EIKON BASILIKE or THE PICTURE OF KING JAMES DRAWN TO LIFE - 1696

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Titus Oates: Eikon Basilikē: or, The Picture of the late King James drawn to the Life. [Parts I-IV.] In which is made manifest, That the whole Course of his Life hath to this day been a continued Conspiracy against the Protestant Religion, Laws and Liberties of the Three Kingdoms. In a Letter to himself. And humbly Dedicated to the King's Most Excellent Majesty, William the Third, Our Deliverer and Restorer. London: Printed for Richard Baldwin, near the Oxford-Arms Inn in Warwick-Lane, 1696-97. Four parts in one volume. FIRST EDITION. Small 4to (22 cm) in later half morocco and marbled boards, rebacked in modern morocco with gilt-lettered spine titles; [52], 118 [i.e., 116] pp.; [4], 147, [1] pp.; [4], 103, [1] pp. [4], 190 pp. The first part with the "m" in "Oxford-Arms" printed upside-down. Wing O36, ESTC R17038; Wing O39, ESTC R16998; Wing O40A, ESTC R15499; Wing O40, ESTC R7727.

Titus Oates (1645-1705) was the chief fabricator of the notorious "Popish Plot" hoax of 1678. Unchastened by his conviction for perjury and a sentence that included repeated floggings, pillorying, and three and a half years in prison, Oates continues his inflammatory, libelous ways in this "elaborate tissue of coarse invective" (NNDB) aimed at James II. Binding with wear to the edges and corners; later front free-endpaper (blank) detached but present; contents with generally mild toning, occasional browning and scattered spots, damp-stain to the fore-edge of the last few leaves, else quite clean and sound, securely bound.