[Plate Books] (Holland, Henry). Heroologia Anglica: hoc est clarissimorum et doctissimorum aliqout Anglorum qui floruerunt ab anno Christi M.D. usque ad presentem annum M.D.C.XX. Vivae effigies, Vitae et Elogia, duobus tomis.

Arnhem: (Crispijn van de Passe and Jan Jansson), 1620. Two parts in one volume. First edition. Folio. iii, 240 pp. Two-page "post prefatio" wanting, as usual. Text in Latin. Illustrated with engraved title-page, and 67 engraved plates (65 portraits and 2 monuments) by Willem and Magdalena Van de Passe. Full diced Russia, rebacked, spine worn, extremities rubbed, elaborately decorated in blind and in gilt; all edges gilt; green endpapers; book-plates of William Carr mounted to front paste-down; title-page re-margined; large old and partially repaired vertical closed tear to L2, affecting text and image; slip containing additional printed text pasted to foot of O5v; plate of the tomb of Elizabeth I trimmed to plate mark, mounted, and partially hand-colored (between D2-3); scattered old repairs along edges; old lot description and receipt for this book (Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, December 19, 1898, lot 500), as well as an additional description for another copy (Quaritch), mounted to rear paste-down. Hind, Engraving in England in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, 145-162; Lowndes II, 1089

First edition of "The most trustworthy series of English portraits published up to that time" (Hind). Those pictured include Tudor and Jacobean monarchs, noblemen, ecclesiastics, and courtiers.

This lot is located in Philadelphia.

Provenance

From the collection of Justin G. Schiller

[Plate Books] (Holland, Henry). Heroologia Anglica: hoc est clarissimorum et doctissimorum aliqout Anglorum qui floruerunt ab anno Christi M.D. usque ad presentem annum M.D.C.XX. Vivae effigies, Vitae et Elogia, duobus tomis.