John Guillim

A Display of Heraldry [Heraldrie] Sixth Edition, 2 vol set

      Publisher: R & J Bonwicke - Date of Publication: 1724 - Binding: leather_bound - Edition: 6th edition - Condition: VG : in very good condition. Gilt monogram of Musgrove of Edenhall to front. Marbled eps. Ex libris bookplates and tipped-in details of provenance to front pastedown and fep. Contents clean and tight with occasional browning of pages - Description: Full gilt leather binding :: pp. vi, 20, 460; pp. iii, 275, 58, 24 + 20 page index + 60 plates Over 2,400 hand-coloured coats-of-arms within text; 60 engraved plates and tipped-in engraved frontis plate (later addition) 340mm x 250mm (13" x 10") The sixth and, according to Lowndes, 'best edition'. Fully entitled: 'A Display of Heraldry. Improved with large Additions of many hundred Coats of Arms, under their respective Bearings, with good Authorities from the Ashmolean Library, Sir George MacKenzie, &c. With his Tract of Precedency, containing all his Rules, Observations, Arguments, and chief Instances. To which is adde [Publisher: R & J Bonwicke]