Engeland beroerd onder de regeering van Koning Jacobus de II. En hersteld door Willem en Maria, Prins en Princesse van Orangie, : verkoozen en gekroond tot Koning en Koningin van Engeland, Schotland, Vrankrijk en Yerland. Waer in pertinent verhaeld werd al het gepasseerde sedert de Kroning van Jacobus de II. tot de Kroning van Willem en Maria. / seer naeukeurig na de engelsche orgineelen, en autentijke stukken en bewijsen, in het nederduytsch by een gebragt ; verciert met konstige koopere plaaten en medalien.
1689
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Engeland beroerd onder de regeering van Koning Jacobus de II. En hersteld door Willem en Maria, Prins en Princesse van Orangie, : verkoozen en gekroond tot Koning en Koningin van Engeland, Schotland, Vrankrijk en Yerland. Waer in pertinent verhaeld werd al het gepasseerde sedert de Kroning van Jacobus de II. tot de Kroning van Willem en Maria. / seer naeukeurig na de engelsche orgineelen, en autentijke stukken en bewijsen, in het nederduytsch by een gebragt ; verciert met konstige koopere plaaten en medalien.
Created/published
Amsterdam : By Jan ten Hoorn, 1689.
Description
327, 128 pages, 9 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 20 cm
Associated name
James II, King of England, 1633-1701.
William III, King of England, 1650-1702.
N. N.
Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715, writer of preface, attributed name.
Luiken, Jan, 1649-1712, engraver.
Smids, Ludolph, 1649-1720, contributor.
Hoorn, Jan Claesz ten, active 1671-1715, bookseller.
William III, King of England, 1650-1702.
N. N.
Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715, writer of preface, attributed name.
Luiken, Jan, 1649-1712, engraver.
Smids, Ludolph, 1649-1720, contributor.
Hoorn, Jan Claesz ten, active 1671-1715, bookseller.
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Cited/described in
Van Eeghen-Van der Kellen. Het werk van Jan en Casper Luyken, I, 161
Van der Wulp, 6531
Short title catalogue Netherlands, 85060480X
Van der Wulp, 6531
Short title catalogue Netherlands, 85060480X
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FAST ACC 271705 (quarto)
Folger-specific note
Purchase made possible by The Kenneth C. Hogate Acquisitions Fund. From dealer's description: "[BURNET, Gilbert? / JAMES II]. Engeland Beroerd onder de Regeering van Koning Jacobus de II. En hersteld door Willem en Maria, Prins en Princesse van Orangie, Verkoozen en Gekroond tot Koning en Koningin van Engeland, Schotland, Vrankrijk en Yerland... Verciert met konstige koopere Plaaten en Medalien. Amsterdam: Jan ten Hoorn, 1689. 4to. [19 x 15 cm]. 3 parts in 1 vol [of which the first 2 are continuously paginated]. (4) ff including added engr. title-page, 327 [i.e. 325] pp, (1); 128 pp, (4). Pp. 257-258 omitted in pagination as issued. With 11 added engr. plates (of which 3 folding) signed by Jan Luyken, as well as 6 engr. medallions in text. Bound in contemporary stiff velum with manuscript title on spine. Light wax (?) stain to frontispiece; slightly toned throughout; otherwise a perfectly unsophisticated, neat copy with engravings in excellent impression. Rare sole edition of this original Dutch account celebrating the fall of James II, published in the year of William of Orange's invasion and assumption of the English crown, alongside his wife Mary Stuart - daughter of the deposed James. As the title-page suggests, the work draws 'very faithfully' on various English sources, but is not a direct translation of any English-language work; it is also enlivened by 12 rich illustrations by one of the foremost engravers of his time, Jan Luyken. Luyken's engravings perhaps deliberately focus on two themes much in vogue during the 17th century: pageantry and beheadings. The text begins with the death of Charles II in 1685; soon we find a depiction of the popular legend that the beheading of the Duke of Monmouth (for an attempted coup against James) was so botched that the executioner was forced to use a knife to finish the job (p. 65); the beheading of the Earl of Argyll following the same failed coup in 1685; the suspicious birth of the Prince of Wales (the future Old Pretender) in 1688; William's landing at Torquay on 15 Nov 1688; the cowardly flight of James II in a row-boat (p. 301); and William's welcome by the populace just outside London. The three folding plates depict the coronation procession through London of William and Mary on 23rd Feb 1689 (with a legend naming the important figures); a further folding ceremonial procession for the royals held on 21 April 1689; and a rather magnificent folding plate of the interior of Westminster Abbey, depicting the crowns being placed atop the heads of the kneeling monarchs, surrounded by hundreds of nobles. Dutch popular opinion had pivoted in the years following the execution of Charles I from Royalist sympathies to a strong distrust of the openly Catholic James II. The title of the present work sums this up, translated roughly as 'England crushed under the reign of King James II, and restored through William and Mary'. The preface of the present work (and perhaps more?) are sometimes attributed to the Scottish philosopher Gilbert Burnet (1643-1715), who was fluent in Dutch and spent the years of James II's reign in exile in The Hague at the court of William and Mary. OCLC shows four copies in US libraries: the Newberry, Wisconsin, Harvard, and Minnesota. The JCB holds only a digital copy. We note that the digitized copy held at the British Library is in lamentable condition." Ordered from Antiquariat INLIBRIS, Gilhofer Nfg. GmbH, D9358, 2019-10-15, email quote.
Folger accession
271705