The academy of armory, or, A storehouse of armory and blazon. . Containing the several variety of created beings, and how born in coats of arms, both foreign and domestick. With the instruments used in all trades and sciences, together with their terms of art. Also the etymologies, definitions, and historical observations on the same, explicated and explained according to our modern language. Very usefel [sic] for all gentlemen, scholars, divines, and all such as desire any knowledge in arts and sciences. By Randle Holme, of the city of Chester, gentleman sewer in extraordinary to his late Majesty King Charles 2. And sometimes deputy for the Kings of Arms.
Randle Holme (1627-1699)
Category
Books
Date
1688
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Belton House, Lincolnshire
NT 3023446
Summary
Bibliographic description
[12],107,[11],488,[2],501,[1]p., 2 leaves of plates . fol.. Moved from 15.H.10. Calf, with rules and cornerpieces (seventeenth-century) Pastedowns = 2 waste leaves (perhaps cancellanda) from another setting of the "Academy of armory", containing p. "122" and p. "*119" (pagination and text of reverse sides not legible), which are variant settings of pp.124 and 122 respectively of the 2nd sequence in the published edition.. Provenance: With an engraved plate mounted on flyleaf facing engraved title: factotum design of blank escutcheon, helm and mantling, with letterpress below: The coat and crest of arms of the ever honoured and highly esteemed [blank] to whom this first volume ... is most humbly dedicated and presented, from ... Randle Holme. The arms, crest and name of the dedicatee of this copy have been inserted in MS (in the author's hand?): "Sr. Francis Leicester of Tabley Bartt:". With MS note on slip pasted to flyleaf (in hand of 1st earl Brownlow), noting this as a book of "great rarity and intrinsic curiosity", quoting Dibdin's Decameron, III.142. Bookplate: Belton House (earl's coronet & crests). Old pressmarks on pastedown: H. num. 6 (17c.?) and H/2 (Belton, 19c.).
Makers and roles
Randle Holme (1627-1699) P. Edwards