JAMES I, King of England (1566?1625).?The Workes of the Most High and Mighty Prince, James. London: Robert Barker and John Bill, 1616. Folio in sixes (330 x 216 mm). Leaf e3 cancelled as required, with cancel slip on A6r. Engraved portrait frontispiece after Simon de Passe, engraved additional title-page by Renold Elstrack (upper and lower margins trimmed to plate), full-page woodcut of the Royal arms, engraved portrait of Charles, Prince of Wales, by Passe, woodcut ornamental head- and tail?pieces, historiated initials (some browning to plates). (Without blanks e4 and final Bbb4). Period?style calf with blind stamped border, 5 flat raised bands, compartments with gilt scrollwork (later repair to upper joint reinforced with a strip of leather laid down, light marring to covers, ffep dampstained). Contemporary vellum manuscript waste slip dated 1617 laid in. Provenance: Dr. John Henry Grossman; James Hepburn; Honorable Hew Dalrymble (bookplates); Martha Fletcher (title signatures dated 1745). FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE of King James?s English works being one of the finest specimens of Jacobean book production and a great interest of the development of the idea of the divine right of kings and other Stuart constitutional problems. Pforzheimer 531; STC 14344.