The academy of armory, or, A storehouse of armory and blazon : containing the several variety of created beings, and how born in coats of arms, both foreign and domestick : with the instruments used in all trades and sciences, together with their their terms of art : also the etymologies, definitions, and historical observations on the same, explicated and explained according to our modern language : very usefel [sic] for all gentlemen, scholars, divines, and all such as desire any knowledge in arts and sciences /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Chester :
Printed for the author,
1688.
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| Series: | Early English books online.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Item Description: | Includes indexes. Added t.p. engraved by P. Edwards. Extends only through liber III, chapter 13. The contents includes liber III, chapter 14-21, and liber IV, chapter 1-15, as "ready for the press" ... "if encouraged by liberal and free contributors." A unique copy in the Royal Library at Windsor contains 191 printed pages of this portion. In 1905 all that could be found of it, liber III, chapter 14-22, and liber IV, chapter 4-13, was printed for the Roxburghe Club from the manuscript in the BM (Harleian manuscript 2033-35). Reproduction of original in Huntington Library. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (3 parts ([14], 107, [9]; [2], 488; [2], 502 pages) : illustrations, coats of arms. |