Folio in sixes (330 x 203 mm). Title-page with woodcut printer's device, additional engraved title-page by Renold Elstrack, engraved portrait of James I on half-title verso (both engravings in Pforzheimer's first state), full-page woodcut royal arms, woodcut initials (some historiated), woodcut head- and tail-pieces; e3 canceled. (Half-title repaired at lower margin, engraved title shaved close to plate, occasional spotting or browning in margins.) Contemporary paneled calf (re-backed with renewed endpapers, fore-corners repaired). Provenance: Early ownership signature on half-title with inkblots below, with bleed-through slightly affecting the engraved title.

FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE of the collected works of James I without the supplement added to later copies. "This volume is of great interest to... the development of the idea of the divine right of kings and other Stuart constitutional problems... Typographically this is one of the finest specimens of Jacobean book-production" (Pforzheimer). EST S122229; Hazlitt II:306; Lowndes 1180; Pforzheimer 531; STC 14344.