Heraldry : Sources, Synbols and Meaning. [The Herald -- Terminology -- The Shield -- The Sign -- The Helmet -- The Crown -- Heraldic accessories -- The Right of Arms -- Armorial Display -- Early Armorials]

LCCN:76-20187 ; Dewey: 929.6 ; LC: CR21.N48 ;ISBN: 0070463085 ; Contents: The Herald -- Terminology -- The Shield -- The Sign -- The Helmet -- The Crown -- Heraldic accessories -- The Right of Arms -- Armorial Display -- Early Armorials -- Bibliography. ; ".contains an extensive and thorough display of heraldic devices and historical illustrations. There are 1,700 illustrations, 1,500 in full color. Many specially commissioned maps, charts, and diagrammatic drawings are used to bring new clarity to subjects that range from the geographic distribution of major signs in the Middle Ages to the intricate, short-lived arms of Austria-Hungary. Museums, incunabula, cathedral crypts, and monasteries have bee n searched for graphic and exquisite examples of heraldic symbols, scenes of tourneys and courts, statues, halberds, tabards, furs, etc--all of heraldry's sophisticated paraphernalia and princely milieu." ; blue cloth in colorful dustjacket ; FINE/VG.