A display of heraldrie : manifesting a more easie accesse to the knowledge thereof than hath beene hirtherto published by any, through the benefit of method / whereinto it is now reduced by the study and industry of Iohn Guillim ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Guillim, John, 1565-1621.

Contributor:

Barkham, John, 1572?-1642.

Badger, Richard, printer.

Mab, Ralph, bookseller.

STC Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Heraldry--England--Early works to 1800.

Heraldry.

England--Genealogy--Early works to 1800.

England.

Genre:

Genealogy.

Family histories.

Penn Provenance:

Furness, Horace Howard, 1833-1912 (honoree)

Furness, Horace Howard, Jr. (donor)

Furness, Louise Brooks Winsor (donor)

Doughty, William (autograph)

Mowes, John (autograph)

Branston, Robert (autograph)

Whilley, Robert (autograph)

Chamberlin, Ann (autograph, 1777)

Chamberlin, Thomas (autograph, 1777)

O'Beirne, Jane Ormsby (autograph, 1835)

Physical Description:

16 unnumbered pages, 167, 170-421, 420-428 pages, 6 unnumbered pages : coats of arms ; 29 cm (folio)

Edition:

The second edition / corrected and much enlarged by the author himselfe in his life time, together with his owne addition of explaining the termes of hawking and hunting, for the use and delight of gentlemen.

Place of Publication:

London : Printed by Richard Badger for Ralph Mab, 1632.

Notes:

"Misattributed to John Barkham."--ESTC.

Signatures: (A)⁴(±(A)2) (a)⁴ B-P⁴ Q⁴(±Q2,4) R-2A⁴ 2B⁴(±2B3) 2C⁴(±2C2,3) 2D⁴(±2D1) 2E⁴ 2F⁴(±2F3) 2G-2O⁴ 2P⁴(±2P4) 2Q⁴(±2Q1) 2R-3B⁴ 3C⁴(±3C3) 3D-3E⁴ 3F⁴ chi²(chi1+3G1,3G2.3; chi2+²chi1,3G4) 3H⁴ 3I².

Leaf (a)1 signed "(a)2"; leaf 3G1 signed "Ggg2"; leaf E1 unsigned; leaf 3H4 is blank.

Quire chi² is an addition to quire 3G⁴; chi1 ("The atchieuement of an esquire") precedes leaves 3G1, G2.3; chi2 ("The atchieuement of a viscount"), which is conjugate to chi1 follows G3; a single leaf insertion, ²chi1 ("The atchieument of an earle") follows, inserted between chi2 and G4.

"The inserted leaf and the inserted bifolium following quire 3G are the achievements of an esquire, and viscount, and an earl respectively."--ESTC.

Numerous errors in pagination; may vary in some copies.

Title within ruled borders.

Woodcuts: title vignette, illustrations, initials, head- and tail-pieces.

Printed marginalia.

The additional material on hawking and hunting appears never to have been added.

Errata on leaves 3I1 and 3I2r.

Identified as Early English books, 1475-1640: 1175:1 on UMI microfilm.

Local Notes:

Penn Libraries copy imperfect: leaf 3H4 (blank) wanting; leaf (A)4 bound before leaf (A)3; leaf 2A4 bound before leaf 2A3; tears across and at top outer corner of leaf (A)2 mended; leaf S4 cropped at outer margin with some damage to and loss of side-notes; leaf 2Q2 mended at inner margin with minor damage to text; bottom outer portion of leaf 3I2 torn off with some loss of text.

Penn Libraries copy has 3F, chi and 3G gatherings bound in the following order: 3F1, 3F2, 3F3, chi1, 3G1, 3F4, 3G2, 3G3, chi2, ²chi1, 3G4.

Penn Libraries copy has ms. notes on front free endpaper and ms. index on back free endpapers; a few ms. marginal notes, drawings and corrections to page numbers; many initials and illustrations and a few head- and tail-pieces hand-colored.

Cited in:

STC (2nd ed.) 12502

ESTC S120352

OCLC:

39806092