Item #313060 A TREATISE ON HERALDRY; British and Foreign, With English and French Glossaries. Two Volumes. John WOODWARD, Etc, F. S. A. Scot., John WOODWARD, Etc, F. S A. Scot., LL D. the Late George Burnett, Etc.
A TREATISE ON HERALDRY; British and Foreign, With English and French Glossaries. Two Volumes.
A TREATISE ON HERALDRY; British and Foreign, With English and French Glossaries. Two Volumes.
A TREATISE ON HERALDRY; British and Foreign, With English and French Glossaries. Two Volumes.
A TREATISE ON HERALDRY; British and Foreign, With English and French Glossaries. Two Volumes.

A TREATISE ON HERALDRY; British and Foreign, With English and French Glossaries. Two Volumes.

Edinburgh and London: W.& A.K. Johnston. 1892. First Edition (& 1st printing). Two volumes. Octavo, bound in half black morocco over green cloth boards, the spines with raised bands and lettered gilt within compartments, dark green floral endpapers, top edges gilt. Pp [1], 2-7: List of Subscribers, [blank] [errata], [blank], [i], [ii-vi, [vii], viii-xii, [xiii], xiv, [xv], [blank], [1], 2 - 395 [Verso of 395: Printers Statement]; [i], ii-v, [vi-vii], [blank], [396], 397-858. Title pages printed in black & red, 56 full-page plates with tissue guards, 48 of which are colour chromolithographs; plus 106 illustrations in the text. Beautiful Heraldic crest bookplates of Everard W. Barton to endpapers of both volumes (Owl motif, Motto: I Byde My Time); Later ink signatures of two different owners on preliminary blanks. Moderate scuffing and rubbing to bindings at extremities, a very attractive, clean set, nice and sound. Item #313060

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