BROOKE, Ralph.

A Catalogue of the Succession of the Kings, Princes, Dukes, Marquesses, Earles, and Viscounts of this Realme of England ... collected by Raphe Brooke Esquire, Yorke Herauld: discovering, and reforming many Errors ... lately published ...

[London], Printed by William Jaggard ... 1619. Small folio, pp. [58], 276, [4], paginated irregularly, with the final leaves of contents / ‘Faults escaped’ and ‘Errata’, but wanting preliminary blank; contemporary calf with two, blind fillets on the covers, later label and red edges, wanting ties, joints cracking but not weak. First edition. The Catalogue was a disaster, full of errors which Brooke blamed on Jaggard in a revised second edition (1622), printed hastily at his own expense. The herald Augustine Vincent, Rouge-Crosse Pursuivant, who had fallen out with Brooke over his treatment of Camden, immediately rallied to Jaggard’s defence in A Discoverie of Errours (1622), proving that Brooke and not the printer had perpetrated the many ignorant mistakes. Jaggard, doubly angry at Brooke’s attack and at his producing a second edition ‘when there lay yet ... of the former impression, almost two hundred of five, rotting by the walles’, thought it worthwhile to interrupt the printing of the First Folio to bring out Vincent’s book. STC 3832.

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