(Glover, Robert) Nobilitas politica vel civilis.... Lot n° 888

(Glover, Robert) Nobilitas politica vel civilis. Personas scilicet distinguendi, et ab origine inter Gentes, ex Principum gratia nobilitandi Forma. Praeter omnium antehac, da sola Theologica, aut Philosophica tantum Nobilitate disceptantium (Civiles interim praetereuntium) Conclusiones ... With woodcut TV-signette, 9 engraved. Portraits and woodcut book decoration. London, William Jaggard, 1608. 3 fol., 190 (recte 192) pp. 4°. Mod. Pp. "First edition. With woodcut title vignette, 9 copper engraved portraits (2 of Queen Elizabeth) u. woodcut decoration. Mod. cardboard. - Edited from the unpublished manuscript of Robert Glover by his nephew Thomas Milles. Glover was one of the finest genealogists and heralds of England: ""His authority in genealogy and heraldry is much relied on by the Officers of Arms of the present day"" (Moule, Bibl. Herald. Magn. Brit., 66). None of his work was published during his lifetime, but he left a great number of manuscripts which were very influential. Bruce Rogers considered this work as ""one of the handsomest books of that (Elizabethan) period ... printed by 1608 by Jaggard, the printer of the first folio fifteen (sic 14) years later. The Nobilitas is generally accounted the masterpiece of his press, and itself comprises nearly all of the various typographical feature of books of that time"" (Paragraphs on Printing). - Flyleaves renewed, title with handwr. contemp. bookplate, last 6 leaves with backed corner defect (without loss of text), paper somewhat wavy, slightly browned and foxed, margins partially waterstained (illustr. predominantly not affected), 2 plates cropped close (1 in the right, the other in the lower margin).". First edition. - Published and edited by Thomas Milles from the manuscript by Robert Glover. - Endpapers renewed, title with bookplate in manuscript. the last 6 leaves at the top with backed corner loss (without loss of text), paper somewhat wavy, slightly browned and foxed, margins partly waterstained (illustrations mostly not directly affected), 1 plate crooked on the right and 1 plate in the lower margin slightly trimmed. *