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The Booke of Honor and Armes
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The Booke of Honor and Armes

Book 1590 English United Kingdom

Anonymous work

London: printed by Thomas Orwin for Richard Jones, 1590. The source parser misread publisher “Jhones” as the author and circa 1500 as the date. Modern cataloguing traditionally attributes the anonymous work to William Segar, while some scholarship treats Jones as compiler.

Quality phase 526: duplicate work 546 consolidated into this canonical work. Both records describe the London 1590 Booke of Honor and Armes.

Legacy record 546: BOOKE of HonorandArmes,whereinisdiscoursed theCauses of Quarrell,andthenatureofinjurieswith theirrepulses. 4°. 1590. Printedby R. Jhones. [Woodcut, title, andcurious illustrations. A rarework,probablyalludedto byShakespeareinhis “As You Like It," where Touchstonesays, "OSir, we quarrel in print, by the book." The copy which passed through my handshad theduplicatetitle-page(frequentlywanting). Thecuts,having been set out too largefor the size of the pages, have the appearance of beingcutinto; itisthesameinallcopies.]

B-block staging entry validated for model fit. Imported from staging batch duell-thimm-b, source entry 257.

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Bibliographic Overview
TitleThe Booke of Honor and Armes
AuthorAnonymous work
Earliest publication date1590
LanguageEnglish
CountryUnited Kingdom
Document typeBook
Authority statement
Anonymous; traditionally attributed to William Segar
DuellingHonour and Law
Authority Roles
Publisher
Richard Jones
Edition History
The Booke of Honor and Armes 1590
CityLondon
PublisherPrinted by Thomas Orwin for Richard Ihones, dwelling at the signe of the Rose and Crowne neere Hoburne Conduit
PrinterNot specified
FormatSmall 4°
Pages[12], 104, 75, [1] p.
DimensionsNot specified
Source pages: 174. Bracketed notes: ["circa1500."]

Quality phase 301: Folger record 166755 establishes [12], 104, 75, [1] pages, quarto, with woodcut illustrations for the exact 1590 manifestation.

Quality phase 526: duplicate edition 550 consolidated here. Legacy note: Source pages: 43. Bracketed notes: ["Woodcut, title, andcurious illustrations. A rarework,probablyalludedto byShakespeareinhis “As You Like It,\" where Touchstonesays, \"OSir, we quarrel in print, by the book.\" The copy which passed through my handshad theduplicatetitle-page(frequentlywanting). Thecuts,having been set out too largefor the size of the pages, have the appearance of beingcutinto; itisthesameinallcopies."]

Quality phase 101l: non-geographic value removed from city field after individual review.

Quality phase 456: normalized the title and matched the London 1590 Richard Jones manifestation; the digitized witness contains 179 pages.

Cover retrieved from the official Google Books cover endpoint for volume p1JIjUfRRAUC in phase 635; validated at 300×430 pixels.
Digital Witnesses
Booke of Honor and Armes — digitized edition
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Research witness linked in quality phase 456 (50-edition batch). Transferred from duplicate edition 550 in quality phase 526.

Official Google Books cover image used for edition 143 in phase 635.
K10plus — The booke of honor and armes
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Exact manifestation match located during the external research campaign of quality phase 265 (2026-08-31). Catalogue identifier: 1734228377.
Scholarly References
Thimm entry 1155
Thimm (1896)
Carl A. Thimm, A Complete Bibliography of Fencing and Duelling.
Pages 174 · Entry 1155
Thimm entry 279
Thimm (1896)
Carl A. Thimm, A Complete Bibliography of Fencing and Duelling.
Pages 43 · Entry 279