A display of heraldry : manifesting a more easie access to the knowledge thereof than hath been hitherto published by any, through the benefit of method : whereunto it is now reduced by the study and industry of John Guillim, late pursuivant at Arms.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Guillim, John, 1565-1621.

Contributor:

Logan, John, active 17th century.

Blome, Richard, 1635-1705.

Barkham, John, 1572?-1642.

Roycroft, Thomas, -1677, printer.

Blome, Richard, 1635-1705, publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Heraldry--Great Britain--Early works to 1800.

Heraldry.

Great Britain.

Nobility--Great Britain--Early works to 1800.

Nobility.

Penn Provenance:

Elias, Archibald C. (donor) (RBC copy)

Legge, F. (bookplate) (RBC copy)

Dawson, Albert Henry (bookplate) (RBC copy)

Porter, Sinckler (bookplate) (RBC copy)

Physical Description:

12 unnumbered pages, 317 pages, 11 unnumbered pages, 159 pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 161-181 pages, 9 unnumbered pages, 75 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, coats of arms, portraits ; 36 cm (folio)

Edition:

The fifth edition much enlarged with great variety of bearings : to which is added A treatise of honour military and civil, according to the laws and customs of England / collected out of the most authentick authors, both ancient and modern, by Capt. John Logan ; illustrated with variety of sculptures sutable to the several subjects : to which is added a catalogue of the atchievements of the nobility of England, with divers of the gentry, for examples of bearings.

Other Title:

Treatise of honour military and civil, according to the laws and customs of England

Analogia Honorum

Fingerprint:

ofe: n.as ndin heWh (3) 1679 (R)

Place of Publication:

London : Printed by S. Roycroft for R. Blome, and are sold by Francis Tyton, Henry Brome, Thomas Basset, Richard Chiswell, John Wright, and Thomas Sawbridge, 1MDCLXXIX. [1679]

Notes:

Index: p. [1]-[9] following p. 317.

Plates partly printed on both sides.

Separate t.p. for Logan's work: Analogia Honorum: or, A treatise of honour and nobility ... of England ... London, printed by Tho. Roycroft, Anno Dom. MDCLXXVII. Of this work The second part of honour civil has an additional t.p. with imprint: London, printed by Samuel Roycroft, Anno Dom. MDCLXXVIII.

Authorship of A display of heraldry also attributed to John Barkham. Cf. DNB.

Authorhsip of Analogia honorum also attributed to Richard Blome. Cf. DNB.

Title in red and black, title within double-ruled border, head-pieces (in part engraved), initials, text in double columns.

Local Notes:

RBC copy: ms noteson editions on facing t.p.

Cited in:

Wing G2222

Wing L2834

ESTC R12114

Contains:

Logan, John, 17th century. Analogia honorum: or, A treatise of honour and nobility, according to the laws and customes of England.

OCLC:

84748772

Online:

Online version.