Author: [Bolton, Edmund].
Title: THE ELEMENT OF ARMORIES.
Description: At London : printed by George Eld, 1610. 1st Edition. Sm. 4to. [16], 201, [15] p. Title page device, decorative/historiated initial letters, numerous armorial ills. including one to pp.198 with volvelle. ‘By Edward Bolton’ in pen to lightly soiled title page, light age toning, contemporary calf backed marbled boards, some loss to edges, minor surface loss to boards, title and armorial date labels to spine with loss to head. ¶ STC (2nd ed.) 3220.5; ESTC S209. Edmund Mary Bolton [Boulton], (b. 1574/5, d. after 29 August 1634), antiquary and historian. ‘... Bolton's first full-length work to be published, [the above], is among the several works to be produced in late Elizabethan and Jacobean times dealing with heraldry and coats of arms, a subject in which the gentry of the period had a fervent interest ...’ ODNB.

Keywords: HISTORY; HERALDRY


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