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. As also a true register of the blazons of all the Knights of the Garter, from the first installment to the last: and also of all the baronets from their first creation to the last. Faithfully collested [sic] 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 3219167
Summary
Bibliographic description
[16], 402, [4], 403-432, 435-144 [i.e. 444], 36, [6] p. : ill., coats of arms ; fol. Leaf L1 loose. Provenance: manuscript former shelfmark in pencil on front pastedown: "W7" (crossed out). Manuscript code in seventeenth-century hand on front fly-leaf. Binding: seventeenth-century blind-tooled sprinkled calf; sewn onto five cords; double blind fillet border and additional 'qaurter' double blind fillet parallel to spine-edge; single gilt fillet along board edges; blind fillets across spine; remnants of paper label on spine. Red sprinkled textblock edges.
Makers and roles
John Guillim (1565-1621), author Francis Nower (d.1670), editor