1614 Titles of Honor

Description

First Edition, Leather Binding, Rebound, Scarce, Signed Binding

The scarce first edition. Rebound in full calf with gilt detail, by Bayntun. With beautiful marbled paste-downs. An interesting work regarding the study of peerage law, genealogy and nobility around the world. With sections on royal titles, knights, barons, turkish dignities and more. This work was highly influential and remained a much studied work for centuries. The greatly revised edition of 1631 earned Selden the title of, 'Monarch of Letters'. With a poem by Ben Jonson to the front of the book. John Selden was an English jurist and scholar of the ancient laws of England and Judaism. The famous poet, John Milton, referred to Selden as, 'the chief of learned men reputed in this land'. Lacking the contents tables at the rear of the book. Rebound with new blanks and endpapers. The pagination of this book is as follows: a1-a3, b-d4, A-Eee4, Fff-Fff3