A display of heraldry: manifesting a more easie access to the knowledge thereof 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, sutable to the several occasions or subjects

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Imprint
London: printed by T.R. [i.e. Thomas Roycroft] for Jacob Blome, and are to be sold by John Williams at the Crown, and Joshuah Kirton at the Kings Armes in St. Pauls Church-yard; Humphrey Tuckey at the Black Spread-Eagle, and Francis Tyton at the Three Daggers in Fleet-street, 1664. The fifth edition. Corrected and much enlarged by the author himself in his life time: together with his own addition of explaining the terms of hawking and hunting. And to the fourth edition were added about four hundred new coats, and bearings, in their proper sections, never before inserted. As also a true register of the blazons of all the Knights of the Garter, from their first installment: as also of all the baronets, from their first creation to the last, which were made by King Charles the First. And in this fifth edition many offensive coats (to the loyal party) are exploded: with a supply of his Majesties friends: as also the names and coats of armes of the Knights of the Garter, Knights Baronets, and Knights of the Bath: together with the atchievements at large of most of the nobility which were made by King Charles the Second.; ..
Publication year
1664
ESTC No.
R27403
Grub Street ID
110569
Description
[20], 402, [14], 403-448, 447-460, 120, [14] p. : coats of arms. 2°.
Note
The 14 page sequence after p.402 comprises 10 pages all numbered "402" followed by 4 unnumbered pages

Includes index

Some leaves in variant states, amongst these: Q1r has "antient Books" in fourth line from foot of page, a variant has "ancient Books". 2F4r has "voyd," in twelfth line from foot of page, a variant has "void"

Signatures: [pi]]2] [superscript pi]a]2] a]2] b]4] B-3E]4] 3F]4(3F1+*, 2*, 3*, [chi]]2) 3G-3Q]2] 3R]4] 3S-3T]2] 3V1; ]2A-I]2] ]2k-2e]2] ]22f1 ]22G]2] ]22H1 ]2K]2] ]2L1 ]23g-3h]2

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

Copy at UMI microfilm Early English Books 1641-1700, reel 1358 imperfect; wanting Q3, the errata leaves ]22G]2] ]22H1 and "The table" ]2K]2] ]2L1 at end. Some leaves bound in different order; some leaves in variant states. Title page and p.110-133 of British Library copy spliced at end.
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