1730 Art of HERALDRY Emblems Illustrated Coats-of-Arms UNICORNS England Blome

1730 Art of HERALDRY Emblems Illustrated Coats-of-Arms UNICORNS England Blome

Family signs, crests, and arms have always been a popular topic to readers, historians, and families alike, and throughout the 17^th and 18^th-century, numerous works were published on English heraldry. One such work was “The Art of Heraldry” by Richard Blome. Blome, who published the work anonymously, focused primarily on the images used in coats-of-arms, their purposes, and ultimate meanings. As could be expected, this book contains hundreds of illustrated figures on forty full-page copper engraving. The illustrations depict every sort of charge used on arms including bars and stars, fish and birds, weapons, and even unicorns and other mythical creatures!

Item number: #25579

Price: $599

BLOME, Richard

The art of heraldry : containing I. The original and universality of arms and ensigns … II. Of diverse kinds of escotcheons, and of the bearing or using the ordinaries in coat armour. III. Of coat armour form’d of artificial things … IV. Of charges in coat armour form’d of coelestials … of vegetables … of parts of man’s body … of animals … V. Of charges from fowls and birds … VI. Of charges of fishes … VII. Of charges from monstrous animals …

London: printed for J. Osborn, 1730.

Details:

• Collation: Complete with all pages
  • xiv, 222
  • 40 leaves of engravings, plus several in-text engravings throughout
• Provenance:
  • Bookplate – H. Martyn Mowll
  • Stamp – E. W. Fry
  • Handwritten – [ De la Motte, 1757]
• Language: English
• Binding: Leather; tight and secure
• Size: ~7.75in X 4.75in (19.5cm x 12cm)

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