Shelfmark
Gk.5.08
Author
Title
Armorial universel contenant les armes des principales maisons estatz et dignitez des plus considérables royaumes de l'Europe. Blazonnées de leurs métaux & couleurs et enrichies de leurs ornemens exterieurs. Corrigé et mis en ordre par C. Segoing Ad.ᵃᵗ en Parlem.ᵗ historiographe du Roy.
Publication, distribution, etc.
A Paris : Chez N. Berey enlumineur du Roy au bout du pont neuf proscheles Augustins aux deux globes, 1654..
Physical description
[10] leaves, and [194] leaves of plates : ill., coats of arms ; 29 cm. (Fol.)
Note
Engraved throughout (including title page), with 12 pages of letterpress text ("Table des pieces principales, meubles & ornemens contenus en ce recueil").
Note
Most plates numbered, however numerous errors occur in the numbering, with some numbers repeated, and others missed.
Note
Final plate, "L'empire de la mort", is an allegorical depiction of Death as a skeleton seated on a throne of bone; signed: "Nolin f." "Henry Cheneau inventor".
Note
Letterpress text ornamented with woodcut headpieces and initials.
Provenance
Ex dono label of Joseph Frederick Burrell, dated 1983, on front flyleaf.
Provenance
Ms. notes on front flyleaf: "ex libris guillelmi detrasses" dated 1707. The facing armorial bookplate on the front pastedown may be his.
Binding
?16th-century laced-case vellum binding. Covers undecorated. Spine flat and undecorated. Textblock trimmed. Endpapers of laid paper with parchment and paper repairs; one flyleaf at both ends of the textblock.
Copy-specific note
Ms. notes throughout in Guillaume Detrasses' hand.
Copy-specific note
Former ECL shelfmark: DDk.3.17.
Subject
Heraldry Europe Early works to 1800.
Subject
Devices (Heraldry) Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Nolin, Jean Baptiste, 1648 - 1708 engraver.
Added entry--name
Berey, Nicolas, 1606 - 1665 printer.
Added entry--name
Burrell, Joseph Frederick, 1909 - 1983 former owner.
Added entry--place
France Paris.
Language code
fre
Identifier
B51347