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A Display of Heraldry: by GUILLIM, John
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£1,000.00
($ 1594.10)
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Book desription: London: S. Roycroft for R Blome,, 1679. Manifesting a more easy access to the Knowledge thereof than hath been hitherto published by any, through the benefit of Method; Whereunto it is now reduced by the Study and Industry. Folio. Contemporary full mottled calf, respined to style, one red title label gilt, decoration to spine gilt extra, raised bands, blind stamped boards, marbled edges. Illustrated throughout with shields and devices. A tall, fresh copy, boards This so-called “Fifth Edition” (actually the seventh, and last 17th-century, edition) is “much enlarged with great variety of Bearings”. The Display of Heraldry of John Guillim (1550–1621), first published in 1611 with a colophon dated 1610, “was to remain the standard textbook on English heraldry until the second half of the eighteenth century, and it is still regularly used by working heralds in the twenty-first century” (ODNB).
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