Shelfmark
Gi.5.32
Title
Le blazon des armes: avec les armes des princes et seigneurs de France. Auques de nuveau adiouste les armes des empereurs et roys chrestiens..
Publication, distribution, etc.
Lugduni : ex officina Petri de sancta Lucia, alias le Prince, anno domini. M. D. xlii [1542]
Physical description
[24] p. : coats of arms ; 14 cm. (8vo)
Note
Signatures: A-C⁸.
Note
Includes printer's device on last page; decorated initials.
Provenance
Ex dono label of Joseph Frederick Burrell, dated 1983, on front pastedown.
Provenance
Ms. note on second front flyleaf: "only Chedean's copy recorded".
Binding
Early 20th-century calfskin over mill/pasteboards, bound by H. Wood (in London?). Covers decorated with double gilt fillets to form a border; transversal gilt fillets on board edges; gilt roll on turn-ins. Spine with five raised bands, decorated with gilt tools, fillets, rolls and titling over brown label ("Blason des armes "; "Lyon 1542"). Textblock trimmed and gilted. Endpapers of marbled (pastedowns and facing flyleaves) and undecorated paper; two flyleaves at the upper end of the textblock, 18 blank leaves at the lower end.
Copy-specific note
Coats of arms and printer's device are hand-painted.
Copy-specific note
18 blank leaves follow the text.
Copy-specific note
Bookseller's notes on front flyleaves.
Copy-specific note
Former ECL shelfmark: DDk.6.11.
Subject
Heraldry Early works to 1800.
Subject
Nobility France Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Burrell, Joseph Frederick, 1909 - 1983 former owner.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Wood, H. binder.
Added entry--place
France Lyon.
Language code
fre
Identifier
B51210