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Workes of armorie : deuyded into three bookes, entituled, the Concordes of armorie, the Armorie of honor, and of Coates and creastes

by: Bossewell, John, heraldic writer; Legh, Gerard, d. 1563. Accedence of armorie

Publication date: 1572

Topics: Heraldry, Heraldry

Publisher: Imprynted at London ... : In aedibus Richardi Totelli

Collection: getty; americana

Contributor: Getty Research Institute

Language: English

Place from colophon

Title within border of printer's ornaments. Initials

The first part, "Concordes," is an abridgement of Gerard Legh's Accedence of armorie

"The names of the aucthors aswell Latines as others, out of the whiche these workes are chiefelye collected and amplifed"--Preliminary leaf [4]r

STC 3393

Binding: red goatskin. Rebacked, preserving old backstrip tooled in gilt with author, title and imprint. Front cover blind stamped with arms and motto of Sir William Stirling Maxwell (1818-1878), within an ornamental frame. Back cover stamped with his initials and motto, within another frame. Turn-ins and page edges gilt

Stirling Maxwell's bookplate centered on front pastedown, adapted from a print with legend: Bartolom. Murillo pinx., Mathias Arteaga sculp. et excudebat. Stirling Maxwell's collection label at head of back pastedown: EMBLEMS / KEIR