Download or read book The Dates of Variously-shaped Shields, with Coincident Dates and Examples written by George Grazebrook and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-05 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book presents the history of the heraldic shields from Anglo-Saxon times to the nineteenth century. The author offers a detailed research on all the types of shield shapes through centuries and gives details on their origin and meaning. Besides the shapes of shields, the author describes different sorts of patterns, emblems, and their elements, as well as mottoes.