The academy of armory, or, A storehouse of armory and blazon: containing the several variety of created beings, and how born in coats of arms, both foreign and domestick : with the instruments used in all trades and sciences, together with their terms of art : also the etymologies, definitions, and historical observations on the same, explicated and explained according to our modern language : very usefel [sic] for all gentlemen, scholars, divines, and all such as desire any knowledge in arts and sciences /

The academy of armory, or, A storehouse of armory and blazon: containing the several variety of created beings, and how born in coats of arms, both foreign and domestick : with the instruments used in all trades and sciences, together with their terms of art : also the etymologies, definitions, and historical observations on the same, explicated and explained according to our modern language : very usefel [sic] for all gentlemen, scholars, divines, and all such as desire any knowledge in arts and sciences /

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Author / Creator:Holme, Randle, 1627-1699
Imprint:Chester : Printed for the author, 1688.
Description:3 pts. ([14], 107, [9]; [2], 488; [2], 502 p.) : ill., coats of arms.
Language:English
Series:Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 634:10.
Subject:
Heraldry
Heraldry.
Format: Microform Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1241527
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Other title:A storehouse of armory and blazon.
Notes:Includes indexes.
Added t.p. engraved by P. Edwards.
Extends only through liber III, ch. 13. The contents includes liber III, ch. 14-21, and liber IV, ch. 1-15, as "ready for the press" ... "if encouraged by liberal and free contributors." A unique copy in the Royal Library at Windsor contains 191 printed pages of this portion. In 1905 all that could be found of it, liber III, ch. 14-22, and liber IV, ch. 4-13, was printed for the Roxburghe Club from the ms. in the BM (Harleian ms. 2033-35).
Reproduction of original in Huntington Library.
Wing H2513
Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University Microfilms, 1976. 1 microfilm reel. 35 mm. (Early English books, 1641-1700; 634:10)

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