A Display of Heraldry: Manifesting a More Easie 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 of John Guillim, Late Pursuivant at Arms. The Fifth Edition Much Enlarged with Great Variety of Bearings. To Which is Added a Treatise of Honour Military and Civil, According to the Laws and Customs of England and, Collected Out of the Most Authentick Authors, Both Ancient and Modern, by Capt. John Logan. Illustrated with Variety of Sculptures Suitable to the Several Subjects; to Which is Added a Catalogue of the Atchoevements of the Nobilitt of England, with Divers of the Gentry, for Examples of Bearings. London: Printed by S. Roycroft for R. Blome, MDCLXXIX (1679), folio.
[together with]
Analogia Honorum: Or, a Treatise of Honour and Nobility, According to the Laws and Customes of England. Collected Out of the Most Authentick Authors, Both Ancient and Modern. In Two Parts. Illustrated with Variety of Sculptures Suitable to the Several Subjects. London: Printed by Tho. Roycroft, MDCLXXVII (1677), folio.
The Second Part of the Honour Civil: Treating of the Customs, Government, Priviledges, Armorial Ensigns of Honour of the City of London. With the like Account of the Cities of England: Together with the Chief Town Corporate in Each County of England. London: Printed by Samuel Roycroft, MDCLXXVIII (1678), folio.
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Provenance:
Armorial bookplate of John Bedells with the motto "Veritas Domini Manet" (the truth of the Lord endures).
Ownership inscription reading "V. Edward S".
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Size: 238 x 350 mm (approx.)
Condition:
[(1), t.p., A2, a4, a1-a3, a5, 317pp., 2pp., 8pp., t.p., plate, pp.3-18, plate, pp.19-32, 2 plates, pp.33-36, plate, pp.37-38, 10 plates, pp.39-44, 2 plates, pp.45-48, 7 plates, pp.49-76, plate, pp.77-84, 6 plates, pp.85-108, 6 plates, pp.109-152, 13 plates, pp.153-154, 2 plates, pp.155-159, t.p., 2 plates, pp.161-181, 6pp., (1)].
Half brown cloth over marbled paper backed boards with a black tooled label to the spine. The cloth appears to have been a replacement for the original leather. Cloth peeling in places. Binding rubbed and scuffed. Shelf and edge wear. Shelf lean. Bookplate attached to front pastedown. Ink inscription to ffep. Tape rapirs to edges of the title page and the first few and last few leaves including some blanks. Text block very clean with light toning and occasional foxing. Occasional edge tears, some to gutters. Wormholing to the bottom corners of leaves. Uncollated against a reference. Small number of the coats of arms are coloured in, for example, two of the four arms on the plate opposite pp.84 of the Analogia Honorum, some partially coloured. Ink inscription to pp.76 of the Analogia Honorum. Ink marginalia to pp.97 of the Analogia Honorum. Small parts of the extremities of the text of the Table in the rear lacking. Plates in the Analogia Honorum are mostly double sided. Snippet attached to front blank.
[OCLC 1027276906, 2828728].
