1673 BEST ed Honor Redivivus English Heraldry KINGS Britain Loyalist Cromwell

1673 BEST ed Honor Redivivus English Heraldry KINGS Britain Loyalist Cromwell

Matthew Carter’s “Honor Redivivus” is a 17^th-century treatise attacking the Oliver Cromwell parliament. Carter’s Loyalist views propelled him to write this treatise which ultimately became an important study in the history of English heraldry and royals. This 1673 edition includes impressive, full-page engravings of kings, robes, shields, and other historical costumes. It should be noted that Lowndes calls his printing ‘the best edition’.

Item number: #25766

Price: $950

CARTER, Matthew

Honor redivivus: or, the analysis of honor and armory ; reprinted with many useful and necessary additions ; and supply’d with the names and titles of honor of the present nobility of England

London: For Hen. Herringman, 1673.

Details:

• Collation: Complete with all pages
  • [6], 351, [1]
  • 51 engravings
    • Engraved title page
    • 9 engraved plates
    • 41 in-text armorials
  • References: Wing C 660; Lowndes 380
  • Provenance: Armorial bookplate – James Whatman
    • Likely James Whatman (1813–1887), an English Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons in two periods between 1852 and 1874. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society, was a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, and was a director of the South Eastern Railway. He was a captain in the West Kent Militia and was a Deputy Lieutenant of London and a Deputy Lieutenant and J.P. for Kent.
  • Language: English
  • Binding: Leather; tight and secure
  • Size: ~6.75in X 4.5in (17cm x 11.5cm)

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