A display of heraldrie: manifesting a more easie access to the knowledge therof then hath hitherto been published by any, through the benefit of method; wherein it is now reduced by the study and industry of John Guillim late Pursuivant at Armes. Interlaced with much variety of history, suitable to the severall occasions or subjects. The fourth edition. Corrected and much enlarged by the author himselfe in his life time: together with his own addition of explaining the tearms of hawking and hunting, for the use and delight of gentlemen. And now to this fourth edition are added about three hundred new coats and bearings of eminent families, in their proper sections, never before inserted. Faithfully collected by Francis Novver arms-painter (and student in heraldry) in Bartholomew Lane, London.
John Guillim (1565-1621)
Category
Books
Date
1660
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Felbrigg, Norfolk
NT 3080843
Summary
Bibliographic description
[16], 402, [4], 403-409, 409-410, 413-432, 435-443, p. 144 [i.e. 444], 36, [6] p. : ill., coats of arms ; fol. Ruled in red throughout. Ephemera: clipping from auction or bookseller's catalogue loosely inserted between p. 38-9, containing (no. 1710) a copy of Guillim's Display of heraldrie, priced at £3 10s; loose torn off sheet of paper between p. 436-7, containing a manuscript list of heraldic colours in an eighteenth-century[?] hand. Provenance: manuscript inscription on front pastedown: "Will Windh[am]" [i.e. William Windham I (1647-1689)], followed by an illegible code[?] in a different hand. Eighteenth-century Jacobean armorial bookplate (Franks 32206), lettered: William Windham Esquire [i.e. William Windham II (1717-1761)]. Manuscript former shelfmark in pencil on front pastedown: "J7" changed to read "H7". Binding: seventeenth-century blind-panelled sprinkled calf (staining on rear board); sewn onto five supports; double blind fillet border and panel of double and single blind fillets with blind cornerpiece stamps; gilt dashed roll pattern along board edges; blind fillet panels on spine, with blind roll at head and tail and along raised bands; remnants of paper label at head of spine. Red sprinkled textblock edges.
Makers and roles
John Guillim (1565-1621), author Francis Nower (d.1670), editor