The union of honour. Containing the armes, matches and issues of the kings, dukes, marquesses and earles of England from the Conquest, untill this present yeere, 1640. With the armes of the English viscounts and barons now being: and of the gentry of Lincolnshire. Whereunto is annexed, a briefe of all the battels which have beene fought and maintained by the English since the Conquest, till the yeere 1602. Collected out of the most approved authours, former or moderne, by James Yorke, black-smith.
James Yorke (fl.1640)
Category
Books
Date
1641
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Felbrigg, Norfolk
NT 3012541
Summary
Bibliographic description
[16], 331, [1], 76, 52, [4] p. : ill. (woodcuts), coats of arms ; fol. Leaves 2E3,4 are cancels. Provenance: manuscript inscription in pencil on inside front board: "RWKC binding repaired and lettered 1954" [i.e. Robert Wyndham Ketton-Cremer (1906-1969)]. Manuscript former shelfmark in pencil on inside front board: "G7". With a manuscript contents list for p. 67-329 written in a seventeenth-century hand on front fly-leaf. With manuscript marginal annotations in a seventeenth-century hand throughout. Binding: seventeenth-century full sprinkled calf; sewn onto five cords; double blind fillet border; single gilt fillet along board edges; blind fillets across spine; gilt title, author and date added to spine in 1954. Red sprinkled textblock edges. Manuscript fore-edge title tab loosely inserted at front: "Yorkes Heraldry".
Makers and roles
James Yorke (fl.1640), author Ralph Brooke (1553-1625), author John Guillim (1565-1621) , author Thomas Milles (1550?-1627), author Augustine Vincent (1584-1626), author Thomas Rawlins (1620-1670), engraver (printmaker)