THE ENGLISH, SCOTTISH & IRISH NOBILITY COLLECTION

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A truly fascinating and unique collection of 170 rare, out-of-print books compiled together for the first time on 2 DVD’s covering all aspects of NOBILITY IN ENGLAND, SCOTLAND & IRELAND.

 

This huge collection is an absolute treasure of valuable research material for anyone interested in the royalty, nobility, aristocracy, peerage, baronetage, knightage and great historical families of England, Scotland and Ireland. Discover the history of the English royal family, from the earliest times to the reign of Queen Victoria. Study the chronological and genealogical accounts of nobility and peerage in these ancient kingdoms. Learn about the genealogical succession of the peerage of Ireland. Read about the knights, distinguished families and noble men of England. Discover the descents, marriages, issue, titles, posts, and seats of all the nobility throughout Britain and Ireland. Overall, this is an absolute must for anyone with an interest in British and Irish royalty, nobility and genealogy. The full list of titles included speaks for itself….

 

Containing extremely hard-to-find books and documents that date back as far as the early 1600’s, this wonderful collection provides a valuable genealogical library of reference material for researchers, students and any enthusiast of British and Irish nobility!

 

This outstanding compilation of 170 vintage books on 2 DVD data discs provides literally 1,000’s of pages of great content and fabulous photos / illustrations for the reader. All of the books have been scanned in high quality and preserved forever in pdf format - easy to read on your laptop or computer, or transfer to tablet, smartphone, kindle or e-reader. You can also print entire books or select pages.

 

This is without doubt the most extensive collection of its kind - compiled over time by rare-book-collections, and only available here!

 


The Full List of Titles Included is as Follows:


British & Irish Nobility – Disc 1:


A book of duchesses; studies in personality by A. E. Robbins (1913)

A catalogue and succession of the kings, princes, dukes, marquesses, earles, and viscounts of this realme of England, since the Norman conquest, to this present yeare, 1619 by R. Brooke (1619)

A catalogue of the royal and noble authors of England, with lists of their works Vols. 1, 2 & 4 by H. Walpole (1758)

A collection of all the wills, now known to be extant, of the kings and queens of England, princes and princesses of Wales, and every branch of the blood royal by J. Nichols (1780)

A dissertation on the history of hereditary dignities, particularly as to their course of descent, and their forfeiture by attainder by W. F. Finlason (1869)

A fair and candid address to the nobility and baronets of the United Kingdom by W. Playfair (1809)

A genealogical and heraldic dictionary of the peerage and baronetage of the British Empire by B. Burke (1869)

A general and heraldic dictionary of the peerage and baronetage of the United Kingdom, for M.D.CCC.XXVI by J. Burke (1826)

A history of the baronetage by F. W. Pixley (1900)

A manual of dignities, privilege, and precedence - including lists of the great public functionaries, from the revolution to the present time by C. R. Dod (1843)

A short view of the families of the present English nobility by T. Salmon (1761)

A treatise on the origin and nature of dignities, or titles of honor; containing all the cases of peerage, together with the mode of proceeding in claims of this kind by W. Cruise (1823)

A visitation of the seats and arms of the noblemen and gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland Vols. 1 & 2 by B. Burke (1854)

An enquiry into the origin and manner of creating peers by R. West (1782)

An inquiry into the origin and limitations of the feudal dignities of Scotland by W. Borthwick (1775)

Anecdotes of the aristocracy, and episodes of ancestral story by B. Burke (1851)

Anecdotes of the upper ten thousand - their legends and their lives Vol. 2 by G. F. Berkeley (1867)

Anglo-Saxon bishops, kings and nobles - the succession of the bishops and the pedigrees of the kings and nobles by W. G. Searle (1899)

Baronia anglica.  An history of land-honors and baronies, and of tenure in capite by T. Madox (1741)

Baronia anglica concentra, or, A concentrated account of all the baronies commonly called baronies in fee Vols. 1 & 2 by T. C. Banks (1843)

Border memories; or, Sketches of prominent men and women of the border by W. R. Carre (1876)

British aristocracy and the House of Lords by E. Carpenter (1908)

Chapters from family chests Vols. 1 & 2 by E. Walford (1887)

Collins's peerage of England; genealogical, biographical, and historical Vols. 1 - 9 by A. Collins (1812)

Complete baronetage Vols. 1 & 2 by G. E. Cokayne (1900)

Complete baronetage Vol. Index by G. E. Cokayne (1900)

Complete peerage of England, Scotland and Ireland; together with an extinct peerage of the three kingdoms, list of all their family names, titles of elder sons, etc. Vols. 1 & 2 by G. Kearsley (1809)

Corrected report of the speech of George Canning, in the house of commons, on the 30th April 1822; in moving for leave to bring in a bill to restore to Roman Catholic Peers (1822)

Debrett's Baronetage of England by J. Debrett (1835)

Debrett's peerage, baronetage, knightage, and companionage by J. Debrett (1893)

Dod's peerage, baronetage and knightage, of Great Britain and Ireland by C. R. Dod (1866)

Estimate of the Scottish nobility during the minority of James the Sixth by C. Rogers (1873)

Estimates of the English kings from William 'the Conqueror' to George III by J. L. Sanford (1872)

Genealogical tables of the sovereigns of the world, from the earliest to the present period by W. Betham (1795)

Kelly's handbook of distinguished people Vols. 1 & 2 (1888)

Le Neve's pedigrees of the knights made by King Charles II., King James II., King William III. and Queen Mary, King William alone, and Queen Anne by P. Le Neve (1873)

Lives of the queens of Scotland and English princesses connected with the regal succession of Great Britain Vols. 1 - 8 by A. Strickland (1851)

Love romances of the aristocracy by T. Hall (1911)

Memoirs of the peers of England, during the reign of the First. Vol. 1 by E. Brydges (1802)

Notabilities in France and England by P. Chasles (1853)

Notables of Britain; an album of portraits and autographs of the most eminent subjects of Her Majesty in the 60th year of her reign (1897)

On the nobility of the British gentry, or the political ranks and dignities of the British Empire by J. H. Lawrence (1827)

Our old nobility by H. Evans (1879)

Peerage and pedigree, studies in peerage law and family history Vol. 1 by J. H. Round (1910)

Personal nobility; or, Letters to a young nobleman by V. Knox (1793)

Pictures and royal portraits illustrative of English and Scottish history Vols. 1 & 2 by T. Archer (1878)

Popular royalty by A. H. Beaven (1904)

Portraits of illustrious personages of Great Britain - with biographical and historical memoirs of their lives and actions Vols. 1 - 12 by E. Lodge (1835)

Prestwich's Respublica, or, A display of the honors, ceremonies & ensigns of the Common-wealth under the protectorship of Oliver Cromwell by J. Prestwich (1787)

Queen Victoria by L. Strachey (1921)

Romances of the peerage by W. Greenwood (1914)

Some feudal lords and their seals, MCCCJ by H. de Walden (1904)

State-worthies or, The statesmen and favourites of England from the reformation to the revolution by D. Lloyd (1766)

Studies in peerage and family history Vol. 2 by J. H. Round (1901)

Synopsis of the extinct baronetage of England by W. J. Courthope (1835)

Tales of our great families. 2d series Vols. 1 & 2 by E. Walford (1877)

Tales of our great families by E. Walford (1890)

The baronage and the senate; or, The House of Lords in the past, the present, and the future by W. C. MacPherson (1893)

 

 

British & Irish Nobility – Disc 2:


The book of the court; exhibiting the history, duties, and privileges of the several ranks of the English nobility and gentry by W. J. Thoms (1844)

The British compendium; or, Rudiments of honour Containing the origin of the Scots, and succession of their kings for above 2000 years Vol. 3 by F. Nichols (1741)

The chronicle of the kings of England from William the Norman to the death of George III by R. Dodsley (1821)

The coats of arms of the nobility and gentry of Yorkshire by J. H. Turner (1911)

The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant Vols. 1 - 7 by G. E. Cokayne (1887)

The county families of the United Kingdom; or, Royal manual of the titled and untitled aristocracy of England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland by E. Walford (1860)

The dormant and extinct baronage of England Vols. 1 - 3 by T. C. Banks (1807)

The genealogy of the existing British peerage, with sketches of the family histories of the nobility by E. Lodge (1838)

The great governing families of England Vols. 1 & 2 by J. L. Sanford (1865)

The great historic families of Scotland by J. Taylor (1887)

The historic peerage of England by N. H. Nicolas (1857)

The history of the royal family of England Vols. 1 & 2 by F. G. Bagshawe (1912)

The household of a Tudor nobleman by P. V. B. Jones (1918)

The Irish compendium; or, Rudiments of honour. Containing the descents, marriages, issue, titles, posts, and seats of all the nobility of Ireland Vol. 4 by F. Nichols (1745)

The jubilee date-book - the regnal years of the kings and queens of England, from William the Conqueror to Victoria by W. D. Selby (1887)

The Knights of England Vols. 1 & 2 by W. A. Shaw (1906)

The life & letters of Lady Dorothy Nevill by R. Nevill (1919)

The most gorgeous Lady Blessington by J. F. Molloy (1897)

The new peerage, or, Ancient and present state of the nobility of England, Scotland, and Ireland Vols. 1 - 3 by E. Kimber (1784)

The nobilities of Europe by M. de Ruvigny (1909)

The noble and gentle men of England by E. P. Shirley (1859)

The note-book of Tristram Risdon, 1608-1628 by T. Risdon (1897)

The official baronage of England, showing the succession, dignities, and offices of every peer from 1066 to 1885, with sixteen hundred illustrations Vols. 1 - 3 by J. E. Doyle (1886)

The Patrician Vols. 1 - 4 by J. Burke (1846)

The peerage of England - a complete view of the several orders of nobility by E. Kimber (1766)

The peerage of England by A. Collins (1741)

The peerage of Ireland  or, A genealogical history of the present nobility of that kingdom Vols. 2 - 7 by J. Lodge (1789)

The peerage of Scotland  a complete view of the several orders of nobility, of that ancient kingdom by E. Kimber (1767)

The peerage of the British empire as at present existing by E. Lodge (1837)

The peerage of the British empire for 1882, with the orders of knighthood by J. Foster (1882)

The Peerage, baronetage, and knightage of Great Britain and Ireland, for ...  including all the titled classes by C. R. Dod (1844)

The pocket peerage of Great Britain and Ireland by H. R. Forster (1851)

The principal, historical, and allusive arms, borne by families of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, with their respective authorities by P. De la Motte (1803)

The rise of great families, other essays, and stories by B. Burke (1873)

The royal dukes and princesses of the family of George III. A view of court life and manners for seventy years, 1760-1830 by P. H. Fitzgerald (1882)

The royal families of England, Scotland, and Wales - with their descendants, sovereigns and subjects Vols. 1 & 2 by J. Burke (1848)

The royal marriage market of Europe by C. Radziwill (1915)

The royal princesses of England, from the reign of George the First by M. Hall (1871)

The Scots peerage; containing an historical and genealogical account of the nobility of that kingdom Vols. 1 - 9 by J. B. Paul (1904)

The Shilling peerage for 1872 by E. Walford (1872)

Vicissitudes of families (3rd series) by B. Burke (1863)

Vicissitudes of families Vols. 1 & 2 by B. Burke (1869)

Vicissitudes of families, and other essays by B. Burke (1860)

 

 

An absolute must for anyone with an interest in the history of royalty and nobility in England, Scotland & Ireland – an unbelievable treasure trove of information for a very small price!

 

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