31st Jul, 2020 11:00

Books & Works on Paper including Aviation & Transport
 
  Lot 79
 

Heraldry.- Guillim (John)

Heraldry.- Guillim (John)

A Display of Heraldry..., To which is added a Treatise of Honour Military and Civil..., 3 parts in one, 5th edition, includes ‘Analogia honorum’, with separate title page and pagination, imprint "printed by Tho. Roycroft, anno Dom. MDCLXXVII", general title in red & black, woodcut ornaments, one armorial engraved vignette, 102 engraved plates (including 4 portrait only), mostly by Robert White, 3 loose, some handcoloured, numerous armorial woodcuts to text, pp. 12-24 with contemporary handcolouring, double column, occasional marginalia, rusty hole to Cc1, occasional light staining, contemporary half calf, over pasted boards, rather worn and scuffed, joints cracked, lower board almost detached, [Wing G2222 & L2834], folio, S. Roycroft, 1679; with Willement (Thomas) Regal Heraldry, half title, engraved frontispiece and 36 plates, all but a few hand-coloured or partly so, head-pieces on india paper and mounted, paper watermarked ‘Fellows & Sons 1821', a little spotting, light offsetting, stained throughout to lower gutter of leaves, contemporary vellum over boards, boards ruled in gilt with cornerpieces, spine gilt featuring Tudor arms, with morocco label, marbled pastedowns and flyleaves, a.e.g., soiled and stained, 4to, W. Wilson, published by the author, 1821 (2)

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