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
Tatton Park, Cheshire
NT 3023447
Summary
Bibliographic description
[12],107,[11],488,[2],501,[1]p., 2 leaves of plates . fol.. Former shelfmark 129. Collates as Dfo but without the [2] p. after p. 220; Tatton reads “deputy” as DFo. Provenance: Anonymous mid-nineteenth-century engraved armorial, “Egerton of Tatton” (Potten 9) [William Tatton Egerton (1806-1833)]. Binding: Seventeenth-century double-panelled calf, gilt spine, six raised bands, nineteenth-century re-back, edges sprinkled red.
Makers and roles
Randle Holme (1627-1699) P. Edwards