The catalogue of honour 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, marqvisses, 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.
Thomas Milles (1550?-1627)
Category
Books
Date
1610
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Dunham Massey, Cheshire
NT 3049129
Summary
Bibliographic description
[12],97[i.e. 99],[9],241,[4],290-480,485-486,489-584, [1],588-1130,[2] p. . ill.. (woodcuts, metal cuts) . fol... Identified in 1768 catalogue: L.4. Variant: the earlier and shorter errata in three columns. Page 3S4r is mutilated to remove reference to Charles Blount's natural progeny. Imperfect: wanting all prior to sig. A3.; a leaf after p.241 (presumably a blank??). Provenance: manuscript inscription on p. 903 in the hand of George Booth, 2nd earl of Warrington (1675-1758). Bookplate on front pastedown: Armorial, Grey and Booth quarterings impaling Cavendish-Bentinck: George Harry Grey, 5th earl of Stamford & 1st earl of Warrington (2nd cr.) (1737-1819), pasted over an earlier plate of the 5th earl, surmounted with the baronet's coronet [i.e.: after marriage in 1763 but prior to assumption of earldom of Stamford in 1768].. Binding: Sprinkled, panelled calf; blind ruled, rolled and tooled; spine gilt; red spine label: 'Milles catalogue of honors'.
Makers and roles
Thomas Milles (1550?-1627) Robert Glover (1544-1588)