Heraldry Notebook Manuscript with over 400 Watercolored Coat-of-Arms
by Hughes, Mary Elizabeth
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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New York, New York, United States
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About This Item
Acton House, Wrexham, England, 1823-1825. Hardcover. Original gilt and blindstamped calf front board. Later cloth (buckram) spine and rear board. . Very Good. 8vo. 24 by 19 cm. [2], 1-69, 100-103, [1] pages in text part, followed by 100 plates with original watercolored coat-of-arms or escutcheons. These are emblazoned in rich colors and gold, with one to six emblems per page. Some pages have the emblems placed within a painted Gothic window. Mary Hughes it would appear created at least one other heraldic manuscript, a copy of John Guillim's "A Display of Heraldry". Fairly extensive provenance info contained on prelim blank -- it passed from Mary Hughes to Charles Hughes, March 1865. 20th century ownership inscription of George G. Napier, noting he purchased it from Walford Brothers in August 1929. Later book label of Joan Corder. Condition: generally clean, and paintings are fresh, bright. Original tissue guards have survived.
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Details
- Bookseller
- White Fox Rare Books and Antiques (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 006091
- Title
- Heraldry Notebook Manuscript with over 400 Watercolored Coat-of-Arms
- Author
- Hughes, Mary Elizabeth
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover. Original gilt and blindstamped calf front board. Later cloth (buckram) spine and rear board.
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- Acton House, Wrexham, England
- Date Published
- 1823-1825
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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About the Seller
White Fox Rare Books and Antiques
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New York, New York
About White Fox Rare Books and Antiques
By appointment. Antiquarian and rare books with strengths in illustrated plate books, the decorative arts, costume, sporting, foreign language literature (in the original language), with growing emphasis on early printing.
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- Calf
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