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Published by Roycroft for Blome 1679., 1679
Seller: Adam Mills Rare Books, Cambridge, United Kingdom
* With 2 Additional Plates. * 5th Edition : The Display with numerous armorial figures throughout the text : and the Analogia Honorum with numerous engraved portraits and also engraved plates of armorial bearings : see note below. Contemporary mottled calf, handsomely rebacked and recornered in modern niger morocco, spine with green morocco label and gilt armorial insignia. Folio, pp[xii] + 317 + [9]; Analogia Honorum pp181 + [9]. Original mottled calf a little dried on the surface, else an excellent copy. See Lowndes calling for 73 plates : this copy with a portrait of the Earl of Craven rather than the portrait of the Baron of Worlabye called for by Lowndes : ** and with 2 additional ** portrait plates making 75 plates in all. Guillim's great work in which he 'indeed systematised and illustrated the whole science of heraldry' [DNB]. One of the best editions : with the first appearance of Logan's Treatise with its 'hundreds of engravings of arms and many full-length portraits, some after Vandyck' [DNB]. **** To confirm availability before ordering, please click the link Ask Bookseller A Question.