A catalogue and succession of the kings, princes, dukes, marquesses, earles, and viscounts of this realme of England, since the Norman Conquest, to this present yeere, 1622 : Together with their armes, wiues, and children: the times of their deaths and burials, with many of their memorable actions. Collected by Ralph Brooke, Esquire, Yorke Herauld, and by him inlarged, with amendment of diuers faults, committed by the printer, in the time of the authors sicknesse.

Author
Brooke, Ralph, 1553-1625 [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
[London] : [Printed by William Stansby], 1622.
Description
[8], 392, [2] pages : illustrations (coat of arms) ; 29 cm (fol.)

Details

Subject(s)
Former owner
Rare books genre
Notes
  • Printer's name from STC.
  • Signatures: [A]⁴ B-2L⁶.
  • First leaf is blank.
  • With final contents leaf.
  • Title page variant has author's name incorrectly spelled "Raphe". See ESTC, S126175.
  • Princeton copy 1: Arms of Cornwall in tinctures on p. 104-105; Coat of arms of Huntington on pages 182-183 colored in red and gilt. Annotations on front free free endpaper; verso of tp. contemp. inscription ‘Charles Humprey’; contemp. inscription p. 3, 12, 23, 29, 67, 93, 156, and 163.
Binding note
Princeton copy 1: Bound in contemporary limp vellum with title "Brooke's Catalogue" gold-stamped on a red morocco label on spine; evidence of two leather ties.
Provenance
  • Princeton copy 1: Possibly the author's own copy, with inscription on front free endpaper: "Bought of the Authors daughter wiffe to Mr Dickons dwellinge in fleetestreete neere to the place where the Paggent stoode Ao 1626 pre vis vid Charles Humfrey."
  • Princeton copy 1: Inscribed on verso of title page 'Charles Humfrey.'
  • Princeton copy 1: Armorial bookplates of Edward King (probably the antiquary whose books were sold in 1808), Henry Anthony Littledale (1810-1859) of Bolton Hall, Yorkshire, and his son Willoughby Aston Littledale (1857-1890) on front inside cover; on back inside cover: bookplate of the Yorkshire Archaeological Society with deaccession stamp and manuscript inscription "T.S. Gowland 11 Dec. 1969".
References
  • STC (2nd ed.), 3833
  • ESTC, S107113
Other title(s)
Catalogue and succession of the kings, princes, dukes, marquesses, earles, and viscounts of this realme of England
OCLC
84395493
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