Selden (John)

Titles of Honor, Second edition, title-page in red and black (re-margined and reinforced), this setting of the title page has "Whitakers’, final blank present, Arabic and Hebrew types, black letter, woodcut illustrations throughout, 6 full-page engravings depicting the ceremonial dress of ranks in the English peerage (from baron to the prince of Wales), some light damp staining, dustsoiling & spotting, slightly later calf, front inner hinge gone, spine severely damaged, overall worn, a.e.r., [ESTC S117044; STC (2nd ed.), 22178], folio, William Stansby for Richard Whitaker, 1631.

*** The first of Selden’s important historical works, treating of titles of nobility and knighthood, honorary attributes, and the laws of precedence. The work concerns not only of England but of the ancient world and of foreign empires.