Author: [SHELTON, MAURICE]
Title: An Historical and Critical Essay on the True Rise of Nobility, Political and Civil; from the First Ages of the World, Thro' the Jewish, Grecian, Roman Commonwealths, &C. Down to This Present Time
Description: London, 1719, First Printing of Second Edition. Book Full-Leather , VG, The significantly expanded second edition. xviii+763+index+errata. A very nice copy bound in full leather with raised bands and red spine label. Blindstamped on the front and rear boards. Wear at the spine extremities and tips and front hinge starting. The 1718 first edition was, it appears, a trial edition for the 1719 edition, representing nearly a 600-page increase in text.

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