The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-28
INTERESTING OLD BOOK.
Denver Collector Secures a Volume
Printed 1913 Years Ago.

lSO ears ago.
| Denver News: Edward H. Pierce, a
Denver collector, has recently secured
a tiny book of over 800 pages, 1lus-
trated, stained with the age of 1913
years. The title bears the following:
1.-THE Peerage of England. A complete
view of the several orders of nobility
their descendants, marriages, issue and
relations; their creations. armorial
bearings, crests, supporters, notices.
chief seats and the high offices they
poffefs'; so methodized as to display
whatever is truly useful in this in
StructiVe and amusing branch of
| knowledge Together with an introduce
ton showing the high and illustrious
extraction of our most gracious sover-
eign; also the arms of all the lords,
spiritual and temporal; three useful
plates teaching the art of heraldry,
etc, etc, etc.
But few Englishmen can today tell
in what regard the relations, etc, of
the English peerage are amusing.
However, that knowledge in We olden
time may have had it's humor. The au-
thor is "Mr. Kimber," and the second
edition, carefully corrected, was pub
lished in London in 1859" After a page
which bears the faded signature of
William Adams, comes the editors
advertisement" He says:
The editor, considering the manifest
utility Of manuel of this kind, can
have no reason to apologize for its
publication: being convinced it is cal
culated to recommend itself to all who
DESIRE with facility, to be acquainted
with the families and actions of our
hereditary legislators, who, if we con-
slider them justly, have eclipsed all the
nobility of Europe, by their many illus
| trious actions in peace and War-and
by the struggles they have maintained
| for the support of our excellent cOnSti-
tuition, our laws and liberties. Be this
as it may, however, it is well known
| how necessary it is for the man of
| business and the gentleman to be ac-
quainted with the matters laid before
them in the following pages, wherein a
method is pursued hitherto never at
tempted, which will convert a subject,
ary IN n user fnto Peflee' 1hiuse
There are many pages devoted to en-
cravings of crests of the first, second,
third, fourth, fifth and sixth houses, .
arms of "a dukes, s earls, 13 viscounts,
68 barons, "a bishops u peeresses and
those of the archbishops of Canterbury
and York The account of the pedigree
of 1.-The most high, most mighty and
most excellent prince, George William
Frederick, king of Great Britain,
France and Ireland, duke of Brunswick
Lunenburgh, elector of Hanover, arch
treasurer and prince of the sacred
Roman empire, etc, etc. is elaborate
and begins with the death of Azo the
First, in $40. Full histories of all the
princes, dukes, earls, viscounts, arch
bishops and bishops, barons peeresses,
ETC., are given. That of DR.. Frederick
CORVALLIS, lord archbishop of Canter-
bury, "primate OF all England, lord
of the privy council, president of the
Sons of the Clergy and of the Society
for the Propagation of the Gospel" is
thus tersely set forth: "He was con-
secrated bishop of Litchfeld and Gov
entry in 1749, in the room of DR.. Small
brooke, deceased, and translated to the
archiepiscopal fee of Canterbury on
August -, 1853, in the room of DR.
Thomas Seeker, deceased
notwithstanding the age of the book
its leaves, aside from being stained, are
perfect The typography is fair, the
engraving excellent In one portion OF
the work every other word begins with
a capital letter, while at the extreme
bottom of every page is printed the
first word appearing again at the COM
mencement of the following page.