Shelfmark
Gk.1.02
Author
Title
Londons armory accuratly delineated in a graphical display of all the arms crests supporters mantles & mottos of every distinct company and corporate societie in the honourable city of London : as they truly bear them faithfully collected from their severall patents which have been approved and confirmed by divers Kings at arms in their visitations A work never till now exactly perfected or truly published by any and will rectify many essentiall mistakes and manifest absurdities committed in painting & carving.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : Printed for the author Rich Wallis citizen & arms painter of London & are to be sold by him at his shop against ye Royall Exchange, 1677.
Physical description
[6] sheets (versos blank), [29] leaves of plates : coats of arms ; 44 cm. (Fol.)
Note
Title sheet is engraved.
Note
Second sheet bears imprimatur from Charles II dated 12 May 1677.
Note
Portions of first plate left blank for author to fill with coat of arms and presentation inscription.
Citation/references note
ESTC, R9805
Citation/references note
Wing (CD-Rom, 1996), W620
Provenance
Ex dono label of Joseph Frederick Burrell, dated 1983, on front flyleaf.
Provenance
20th-century black bookplate of Eton College Library, undated, with college crest and initials "RS" (Reynolds Stone) on front pastedown.
Binding
?19th-century quarter bound red morocco and cloth over mill/pasteboards. Covers decorated with blind double fillets separating leather from textile. Spine with five raised bands, decorated with gilt rolls and titling: "London's armory"; "Wallis"; "1677". Textblock trimmed and gilted. Endpapers of marbled (pastedowns and facing flyleaves) and undecorated paper; two flyleaves at both ends of the textblock.
Copy-specific note
Imperfect: wants frontispiece.
Subject
Heraldry England London Early works to 1800.
Subject
Heraldry Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Wallis, Richard, approximately 1643- - ? bookseller.
Added entry--name
Added entry--place
England London.
Language code
eng
Identifier
B51290