The catalogue of honor, or, Tresury of true nobility

The catalogue of honor, or, Tresury of true nobility

Full title: The catalogue of honor, or, Tresury of true nobility : peculiar and proper to the isle of Great Britaine : that is to say, a collection historicall of all the free monarches aswell kinges of England as Scotland (nowe vnited togither) with the princes of Walles, dukes, marquisses and erles, their wiues, children, alliances, families, descentes & achievementes of honor : wherunto is properly prefixed, a speciall treatise of that kind of nobility which soverayne grace and fauor, and contryes customes, haue made meerly politicall and peculiarly ciuill (neuer so distinctly handled before) / translated out of Latyne into English.

Milles, Thomas, 1550?-1627

London : Printed by William Iaggard

1610

[12], 97 [i.e. 99], [9], 241, [4], 290-480, 485-486, 489-584, [1], 588-1130, [2] pages (the first leaf blank) : illustrations, coats of arms ; 34 cm

Epistle dedicatory signed: Tho. Milles. The title page is engraved and signed: Renold Elstracke sculp: The first section is a translation of: Glover, Robert. Nobilitas politica vel civilis. Leaves A1 and 2V8 are blank. Only some copies have pages [242-288]: "A catalogue of the kings of Scotland". Cf. STC. Includes numerous sections each with separate dated title page. "A catalogue of the kinges of England" begins new pagination on 2A1r. First p. 99 misnumbered 97. Page 493 (3S4r) is frequently mutilated to remove reference to Charles Blount's natural progeny. With a final leaf containing two columns of errata. Variant: this leaf and its conjugate in an earlier setting with a shorter errata list in three columns. Library's copy wants "A catalogue of the kings of Scotland" as well as the first blank leaf; errata in earlier setting (3 columns); Page 493 has mutilated text supplied in ms; annotations in early and later hands passim; armorial stamps in gilt on covers

Purchased on the Schulich-Woolf fund.

Jaggard, William, 1569-1623, printer.
Glover, Robert, 1544-1588. Nobilitas politica vel civilis. English.
Elstracke, Renold, active 1590-1630, engraver.

English

Dated 1610 .M55
ESTC S114605