The Theater of Honour and Knight-hood. Or, A Compendious Chronicle and Historie of the whole Christian World. Containing the Originall of all Monarchies, Kingdomes, and Estates, with their Emperours, Kings, Princes, and Governours; their Beginnings, Continuance, and Successions, to this present Time. The First Institution of Armes, Emblazons, Kings, Heralds, and Pursuiuants of Armes..., Written in French, by Andrew Favine, Parisian: and advocate in the High court of parliament, MDCXX, 2 vols. in one, 1st English edition, London: William Jaggard, 1623, [18],[24],572,1-538pp., title printed in red & black with early manuscript signature of Gilberti Spearman 1703 (dust-soiled & marked), twelve pages of woodcut armorials, orders & decorations (printed to rectos, two shaved at foot), few other similar woodcut illustrations to text, small worm hole to lower blank margins of initial few leaves, fore-edge blank margins of Yy3 with small hole and Aaa6 torn, few words defective on final text leaf, lacking final blank leaf at rear, occasional dust & finger-soiling and few rust holes & marks etc., armorial bookplate of Edward Arthur White F.S.A. to upper pastedown, 2nd front free endpaper inscribed 'from Richard Lambert to Chas. Wm. Bigge' and with former ownership inscriptions of John L. Nevinson, December 1953 and C. Blair, 1985, attractive early 19th century calf with four wide raised bands to spine, gilt & blind decoration to spine, joints slightly split, folio STC 10717. The volume includes information regarding jousts, combats and ceremonies in addition to heraldic matters. It is also of interest to the Shakespearian scholar, as it was printed by the same printer later in the same year that he printed the First Folio. Where both books contain the same emblematic head-pieces and tail-pieces. Provenance: Claude Blair FSA, OBE, CVO (1922-2010), the eminent scholar of European arms and armour and historic metalwork, funerary sculpture, English parish churches and the decorative arts. He was Keeper at the Department of Metalwork, Victoria and Albert Museum, from 1972-82. (1)
The Theater of Honour and Knight-hood. Or, A Compendious Chronicle and Historie of the whole Christian World. Containing the Originall of all Monarchies, Kingdomes, and Estates, with their Emperours, Kings, Princes, and Governours; their Beginnings, Continuance, and Successions, to this present Time. The First Institution of Armes, Emblazons, Kings, Heralds, and Pursuiuants of Armes..., Written in French, by Andrew Favine, Parisian: and advocate in the High court of parliament, MDCXX, 2 vols. in one, 1st English edition, London: William Jaggard, 1623, [18],[24],572,1-538pp., title printed in red & black with early manuscript signature of Gilberti Spearman 1703 (dust-soiled & marked), twelve pages of woodcut armorials, orders & decorations (printed to rectos, two shaved at foot), few other similar woodcut illustrations to text, small worm hole to lower blank margins of initial few leaves, fore-edge blank margins of Yy3 with small hole and Aaa6 torn, few words defective on final text leaf, lacking final blank leaf at rear, occasional dust & finger-soiling and few rust holes & marks etc., armorial bookplate of Edward Arthur White F.S.A. to upper pastedown, 2nd front free endpaper inscribed 'from Richard Lambert to Chas. Wm. Bigge' and with former ownership inscriptions of John L. Nevinson, December 1953 and C. Blair, 1985, attractive early 19th century calf with four wide raised bands to spine, gilt & blind decoration to spine, joints slightly split, folio STC 10717. The volume includes information regarding jousts, combats and ceremonies in addition to heraldic matters. It is also of interest to the Shakespearian scholar, as it was printed by the same printer later in the same year that he printed the First Folio. Where both books contain the same emblematic head-pieces and tail-pieces. Provenance: Claude Blair FSA, OBE, CVO (1922-2010), the eminent scholar of European arms and armour and historic metalwork, funerary sculpture, English parish churches and the decorative arts. He was Keeper at the Department of Metalwork, Victoria and Albert Museum, from 1972-82. (1)
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