[CLEVELAND, John ( attributed author ).] Monumentum Regale or a tombe, erected for that incomparable and glorious monarch, Charles the First, King of Great Britane, France and Ireland, &c. In select e

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[CLEVELAND, John ( attributed author ).] Monumentum Regale or a tombe, erected for that incomparable and glorious monarch, Charles the First, King of Great Britane, France and Ireland, c. In select elegies, epitaphs, and poems. [ London: William Bentley .] 1649. [bound with:] B[IRKENHEAD], J[ohn]. Loyalties tears flowing after the bloud of the royall sufferer Charles I. c. Englands glory and shame. [ London?: n.p. ]. “1649”. [ i.e. 1650]. Two works in one vol. 8vo. Contemporary calf, rebacked, blind double rule border to boards, spine blind-ruled in compartments, lettered directly in gilt to one, edges sprinkled red, endpapers renewed; Monumentum: pp. [2], 46, title and pp. 2 and 3 printed in black and red, woodcut skull and crown to title, typographic headpieces; Loyalties: [2 (blank)], [2], 11, [1 (blank)], bound without 8-page advertisement; boards and extremities a little worn; light, uniform toning throughout, occasional very light dampstaining to lower margin, trimmed close at head and foot in places, occasionally touching page numbering and shaving last line of p. 41 of 1st work; ink scribbling to final blank verso of 2nd work; bookplate of the Fox Pointe Collection to front free endpaper. First edition of Cleveland’s collection of royalist verse and second edition of Birkenhead’s poem: two rare clandestine publications commemorating Charles I, composed in the immediate aftermath of his execution. Published anonymously, Monumentum Regale is a collection of eight poetic

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