Dictionary of British Arms

Dictionary of British Arms
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Total Pages : 608
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ISBN-10 : 0854312587
ISBN-13 : 9780854312580
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Download or read book Dictionary of British Arms written by D. H. B. Chesshyre and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first of a four-volume collection of British heraldic arms, arranged alphabetically according to their designs and covering the period before 1530. Listed in this volume are entries from Anchor to Bend. This book will help readers to identify the arms that were widely displayed in the Middle Ages and which can now be found not only on tombs, monuments and seals, but also on textiles, manuscripts, metalwork, glass, wall paintings, and other medieval artefacts. The index allows even those without any specialist knowledge of the subject to discover the blazons of arms recorded for particular surnames in the medieval period. Produced specifically to enable readers to identify individual coats of arms, it is an invaluable reference for historians, antiquaries, archaeologists, genealogists and those dealing in and collecting medieval objects.


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