The Kings of England

Drawn from the 1610 Catalogue of Honor, this work presents the kings of England from the legendary and early medieval rulers through the Tudors in a herald's voice: genealogy, marriages, children, badges, and brief notices of reigns and burials. Robert Glover compiled the Latin materials; Thomas Milles put them into English. The entries are catalogues rather than full narratives, arranged monarch by monarch with arms and descent. The book is an early-seventeenth-century genealogical survey of the monarchy, not a modern constitutional history.

Quarter-bound in brown leather with light brown strapwork printed paper sides. Cream slipcase and endpapers.