Printed concurrently with the First Folio of Shakespeare.

[Shakespeare] / [First Folio bibliography]. Augustine Vincent. A Discoverie of Errours in the First Edition of the Catalogue of Nobility. London: “Printed by VVilliam Iaggard, dwelling in Barbican, and are there to bee sold,” 1622. Folio [21.1 x 19.7cm] , pp. [23] ff., 1-56 pp., [1] f., 57-100 pp., [1] f., 101-166 pp., [1] f., 167-332 pp., [1] f., 333-650 pp., [2] ff., 653-700 pp., [pagination skips to] 703-717 pp., [1] table, [1] errata; the text is complete despite some pagination skips; this copy with all of the cancels described by Wood (ff. M1, 2Z4, 3Z1, 3Z2, 4E1, 4N4 and 4R1), and also including the three paste-on corrections of woodcut arms described by wood (at pp. 211, 569 and 692), and further with the paste-on blank in the margin of p. 658 (which is often missing), and finally with the overprinting of the last line on p. 660, with more than 600 woodcuts in the text. Bound in contemporary English (or Scottish) calf over pasteboard, blind fillets borders to covers, board edges gold tooled, sewing stays of old vellum Latin documents. Spine somewhat worn but still sound, a small restoration at head, minor rubbing and edge wear. 
 
 
First edition Augustine Vincent’s A Discoverie of Errours—which, although it is indeed an important work on English heraldry—is now famed for being one of the three books printed at the Jaggard press concurrently with the First Folio of Shakespeare (along with André Favyn’s Theatre of Honour [1623] and the third edition of Thomas Wilson’s Christian Dictionary [1622]). It shares both types and woodblock ornaments with the First Folio, and minute examinations of these bibliographical details, most notably those performed by Charlton Hindman, have established important facts about that most-studied of English printed books
 
Printing of Vincent’s book A Discoverie of Errours began as early as November 1621 and continued into December of 1622. Printing of the First Folio began about February 1622 and was not completed until late 1623 (see Hinman, vol. I, pp. 363-5). Of particular interest here to students of the First Folio bibliography is the ‘satyr ornament,’ a tailpiece used throughout the First Folio, which is here used in A Discoverie of Errours on pages [652] and 717. While Jaggard’s team was printing the ‘Comedies’ section of the First Folio, a small crack formed in the top line of the ‘satyr ornament’ woodblock. In the earlier of its appearances in Vincent, this line is intact, and in the later the break is evident. This shows conclusively that the ‘Comedies’ (at least) were printed while A Discoverie of Errours was still in the press in 1622. 
 
Also of note is the fact that the printer’s preface to Vincent’ A Discoverie of Errours was set in the same type used throughout the First Folio. Jaggard’s preface to A Discoverie of Errours is a defensive invective: He had printed the original edition of Brooke’s Catalogue of Nobility and was being unjustly blamed by the author for the many errors (they later reconciled). 
 
In our copy of A Discoverie of Errours, the name of “William Gordon,” dated 1657, is written on the from endpaper, and “William G” at the bottom of the same leaf (it is unclear if these are ownership inscriptions). An engraved armorial bookplate, affixed to the verso of the title, reads “S.r William Baird of Newbaith Bar.t,” i.e., Sir William (1654-1737), first baronet, of Newbyth, who lived at Haddington, in East Lothian (east of Edinburgh). The book was therefore likely in Scotland from quite an early date.
 
 
*STC 24756; Charlton Hinman, Printing and Proof-Reading the First Folio of Shakespeare; E. R. Wood, “Cancels and Corrections in A Discovery of Errors, 1622,” The Library, vol. 5, no. 2 (1958), pp. 124-27.