Shelfmark
Gi.4.14
Author
Title
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. Very usefel [sic] for all gentlemen, scholars, divines, and all such as desire any knowledge in arts and sciences. By Randle Holme, of the city of Chester, gentleman sewer in extraordinary to his late Majesty King Charles 2. And sometimes depurty for the Kings of Arms..
Varying form of title
Added title page title: Store house of armory & blazon. containeing all thinges borne in coates of armes both forraign and domestick. With the termes of art used in each science
Varying form of title
Portion of title: Storehouse of armory and blazon
Publication, distribution, etc.
Chester, : Printed for the author,, MDCLXXXVIII. [1688]
Physical description
[12], 107, [11], 488, [2], 501, [1] p., [1] leaf of plates : coats of arms ; 34 cm. (Fol.)
Note
Signatures: [*]² **⁴ B-O⁴ P² (a)⁴ [chi]² (-[chi]2), ²A-B-Z⁴ Aa-Zz Aaa-Ppp⁴, ²[chi]² (-²[chi]2) ³A-Z⁴ ²Aa-Zz⁴ ²Aaa-Ppp⁴ Qqq-Rrr² Sss⁴ (-Sss4).
Note
With an added engraved title page (plate): A store house of armory & blazon. containeing all thinges borne in coates of armes both forraign and domestick. With the termes of art used in each science.
Note
Added engraved title-page signed "P. Edwards Scul:".
Note
Title within simple double-lined border.
Note
Head- and tail- pieces.
Note
Predominantly printed in double columns.
Note
Extends only through liber III, ch. 13. The contents includes liber III, ch. 14-21, and liber IV, ch. 1-15, as "ready for the press" .. "if encouraged by liberal and free contributors." A unique copy in the Royal Library at Windsor contains 191 printed pages of this portion. In 1905 all that could be found of it, liber III, ch. 14-22, and liber IV, ch. 4-13, was printed for the Roxburghe Club from the ms. in the BL (Harleian ms. 2033-35).
Citation/references note
ESTC, R21065
Citation/references note
Wing (CD-ROM, 1996), H2513
Provenance
Ex dono label of Joseph Frederick Burrell, dated 1983, on front pastedown.
Provenance
Booksellers' ticket on front pastedown: Myers & Co.
Binding
?17th-century calfskin over pasteboards. Covers decorated with blind fillets to form a border, blind tools at the corners; blind centrepiece on both boards; blind transversal filets on board edge (fore-edge); blind tools on turn-ins. Spine rebacked with five raised bands, decorated with blind fillets and tools as well as gilt titling ("Academy of armory"). Textblock trimmed and dyed red. Endpapers of marbled (pastedowns and facing flyleaves) and undecorated paper; two flyleaves at both ends of the textblock.
Copy-specific note
Former ECL shelfmark: Gi.2.6.
Copy-specific note
Bookseller's ms. notes on front flyleaf.
Subject
Heraldry Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Holme, Randle, 1627 - 1699 bookseller.
Added entry--name
Edwards, P. engraver.
Added entry--name
Burrell, Joseph Frederick, 1909 - 1983 former owner.
Added entry--name
A. N. Myers & Co. bookseller.
Added entry--place
England Chester.
Language code
eng
Identifier
B51171