Eikon basilike : the pourtraicture of His Sacred Majestie in his solitudes and sufferings ..
Eikon Basilike is a 1649 royalist devotional book attributed to Charles I and John Gauden, published in London and likely printed for a English readership mourning the executed king. Its pictures are small woodcut decorative initials with grotesque foliage, sun faces and beasts, a royal coat of arms with lion and unicorn supporters, and an oval engraved portrait, offering a designer clear models for historic ornamental borders and heraldic emblems.
