Titles of honor. By the late famous and learned antiquary John Selden of the Inner Temple, Esquire. The third edition carefully corrected. With additions and amendments by the author. de Selden, John (1584-1654) - 1672

London: London: printed by E. Tyler, and R. Holt, for John Leigh, and are to be sold at the Bell between Chancery-Lane and St. Dunstan's Church in Fleetstreet, 1672. Full leather. Very Good. White, Robert (1645-1703). Folio; 3rd edition; [36], 756pp. In full contemporary panelled leather (lightly worn), respined with matching leather over six raised spine bands between double gilt fillets, double gilt fillets to head and foot of spine and gilt lettered red leather spine label to second compartment. Bookplate and neat bookseller's stamp to front pastedown, tears with loss to front free endpaper, occasional unobtrusive foxing and light paper browning but otherwise clean, complete with portrait frontispiece by R.White, a number of decorative capitals and headpieces, and numerous full page and in-text engravings of ceremonial dress, seals etc. Attractive copy of Selden's meticulous study of titles and nobility though history. Uncommon edition; ESTC R22094, citing just 5 institutional holdings in the US.