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FAVYN, ANDRÉ. The Theatre of Honour and Knight-Hood. Or a Compendious Chronicle and Historie of the Whole Christian World. Woodcut illustrations, mostly of armorial insignia. [42], 108, 107-580, 571-72; 286, 285-406, [18], 407-538, [2] pages, including final blank. Folio, 334x213 mm, contemporary calf gilt, spine heavily worn, with adhesive remnants, covers detached; contents clean. London: William Jaggard, 1620
first edition in english of a work originally published in French in 1620. Moule, Bibliotheca Heraldica 111 ("the most valuable treatise we have in English upon the foreign orders of knighthood"); STC 10717.
