Shelfmark
Gi.5.09 (Copy 1)
Additional shelfmark
Gi.5.14 (Copy 2)
Author
Title
Armilogia, sive, Ars chromocritica, the language of arms by the colours & metals being analogically handled according to the nature of things, and fitted with apt motto's to the heroical science of herauldry in the symbolical world : whereby is discovered what is signified by every honourable partition, ordinary, or charge, usually born in coat-armour, and mythologized to the heroical theam [sic] of Homer on the shield of Achilles : a work of this nature never yet extant. By Sylvanus Morgan arms-painter.
Varying form of title
Ars chromocritica
Varying form of title
Language of arms by the colours & metals
Publication, distribution, etc.
London, : Printed by T. Hewer for Nathaniel Brook at the Angel in Cornhil, and Henry Eversden at the Greyhound in S. Pauls Church-yard,, 1666..
Physical description
[16], 239, [25] p. : ill., coats of arms, port. ; 22 cm. (4to)
Note
Includes head- and tail-pieces, decorated initials, and a portrait of the author.
Note
Errata: p. [25] at end.
Note
Signatures: A-2M⁴.
Note
Dedicated to Edward Montagu, Earl of Manchester, whose coat of arms is printed on the title page verso.
Citation/references note
Wing (CD-ROM, 1996), M2738
Citation/references note
ESTC, R16382
Provenance
(Copy 1) Ex dono label of Joseph Frederick Burrell, dated 1983, on front pastedown. Bookseller's ticket on front pastedown: "Bought of J.R. Smith, 4, Old Compton Street".
Provenance
(Copy 2) Ex dono label of Joseph Frederick Burrell, dated 1983, on front pastedown.
Binding
(Copy 1) ?17th-century calfskin over pasteboards. Covers decorated with double blind fillets to form a border with tools at the corners. Spine rebacked, flat, decorated with blind and gilt fillets, gilt titling over red label ("Morgan's armilogia"). Textblock trimmed. Endpapers of undecorated paper; one flyleaf at both ends of the textblock.
Binding
(Copy 2) ?18th-century mottled calfskin over pasteboards. Covers decorated with blind fillets to form a border; initials "IN" in the centre of both boards. Spine with five raised bands, decorated with gilt tools and titling ("Morgan's armilogia"). Textblock trimmed. Endpapers of undecorated laid paper; two flyleaves at the upper end of the textblock, one at the lower end.
Copy-specific note
(Copy 1) Ms. notes on front pastedown. Former ECL shelfmark: DDk.3.2.
Copy-specific note
(Copy 2) Ms. note on front pastedown. Former ECL shelfmark: DDk.3.3.
Subject
Heraldry Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Manchester, Edward Montagu, 1602 - 1671 Earl of, dedicatee.
Added entry--name
Hewer, Thomas, active 1638 - 1659 printer.
Added entry--name
Brooke, Nathaniel bookseller.
Added entry--name
Eversden, Henry bookseller.
Added entry--name
Smith, John Russell, 1810 - 1894 bookseller.
Added entry--place
England London.
Language code
eng
Identifier
B51190