The history of heraldry, : containing inquiries into its origin, with an account of its rise and progress in England, and of the other various institutions connected therewith. To which is added, a complete glossary of terms used in the science of heraldry, with explanatory engravings. / By Thomas Robson.
Thomas Robson
Category
Books
Date
1830
Materials
Place of origin
Sunderland
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3250468
Summary
Bibliographic description
72, [90] p., [1], 31 leaves of plates : coats of arms ; 4to. Imperfect: wanting p. 57-72. Double leaf plate of coats of arms bound in at end. Bookseller's pencil codes on front pastedown: "C/-" and "St". Pencil numbers and note on front free endpaper verso: "73 100" and "Heraldry R.". Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (small variant), signed Badeley 1930: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Nineteenth-century full red cloth; blind fillets at head and foot of boards; gilt lettered upper board and spine.
Makers and roles
Thomas Robson, author