Author: GRAZEBROOK, H. SYDNEY, ESQ., OF THE INNER TEMPLE
Title: The Heraldry of Smith, Being a Collection of the Arms Borne by, or Attributed to, Most Families of That Surname in Great Britain Ireland and Germany, [ A Booke of Ye Armes of Most Houses of Ye Smithes in England and Germanie. ]
Description: 36, Soho Square, London, John Russell Smith. 1870, First Edition. Decorated Cloth, Sm 4to. "Compiled from the Harleian Mss. and Other Authentic Sources. 'By Hammer and Hand All Arts Do Stand'] Hardback, 170mm x 215mm tall (7" x 8.5" approx.). Pp xix, 120 + a colour-litho printed, highly decorated half-title page and 32 single-sided plates, with a total of 121 colour-printed heraldic shields and 4 line drawn, one being a full-page plate. Printed by Whittingham and Wilkins at the Chiswick Press, with the Binder's ticket of W. Bone & Son to the rear pastedown. Contemporary newspaper cutting affixed to front free endpaper. Internally sound, but with the original binding of black-printed, decorated red cloth-covered, bevel-edged boards somewhat rubbed and worn to the edges and corners. Gilt titles and top edges gilt. /No d/w.

Keywords: Color Colour Litho Lithography Genealogy Heraldry Arms Smith Schmidt Family Families History Heraldic Shield Shields History Chiswick Press Whittingham Wilkins History and Politics


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