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 collected by Francis Novver arms-painter (and student in heraldry) in Bartholomew Lane, London

People / Organizations

• John Guillim (Author)

Imprint

London: printed by T[homas]. R[oycroft]. for Richard Blome, 1660.

Added name

Nower, Francis, -1670.

Publication year

1660

ESTC No.

R236603

Grub Street ID

107351

Description

[16], 402, [4], 403-409, 409-410, 413-432, 435-443, p. 144, 36, [6] p. : ill., coats of arms ; 2°.

Note

Printer's name from Wing

This is an imprint variant of G2219A "printed by T.R. for Jacob Blome". Same setting of text

2 settings of this title page (by T.R. for Richard Blome) identified. In this setting of the title page, line 19 begins "As also a true register". Another setting begins "Faithfully collected"

With divisional title page for "An exact register of all the Knights of the Garter"

The several "fourth" editions of 1660, and the fifth and sixth "editions" of 1664 an 1666, are all issues of the sheets of the fourth edition, with variations in the preliminaries, and in the inclusion or placement of various parts of the work.