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 ... Second volume.

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 ... Second volume.

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Author / Creator:	Holme, Randle, 1627-1699
Imprint:	London, Printed for the Roxburghe club, 1905.
Description:	3 p. l., [v]-xii, 543 p. illus., plates. 36 x 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	[Publications, v. 142] Roxburghe Club. Publications v. 142.
Subject:	Heraldry Heraldry.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3989775

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Other authors / contributors:	Jeayes, I. H. (Isaac Herbert) ed. Roxburghe Club
Notes:	Title in red and black. Added t.-p., engraved. The first volume of this work, published in 1688, contained Books I, II, and the first thirteen chapters of Book III. The remaining portion (contained in Harl. mss. 2033-2035) namely Book III, ch. 14-Book IV, ch. 4-13 (the first three chapters of Book IV being lost) is now printed for the first time. cf. Introd.

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