Author: Guillim, John.
Title: A display of heraldrie: manifesting a more easie access to the knowledge therof then hath hitherto been published by any, through the benefit of method; wherein it is now reduced by the study and industry of John Guillim late pursuivant at armes. Interlaced with much variety of history, suitable to the severall occasions or subjects. The fourth edition. Corrected and much enlarged by the author himselfe in his life time: together with his own addition of explaining the tearms of hawking and hunting, for the use and delight of gentlemen. And now to this fourth edition are added about three hundred new coats and bearings of eminent families, in their proper sections, never before inserted.
Description: London. London: printed by T[homas]. R[oycroft]. for Jacob Blome, 1660. 0. Hardcover. Folio. [16], 402, [4], 403-432, 435-144[i.e. 444], 36, [6]pp. Fourth edition. Some copies may contain a variant quire B. First words of text on p.1 are "Whosoever shall address himself" and last line on p.6 begins "et affirmeth);" variant has first words of text on p.1 "Whosoever shall addresse himself" and last line of p.6 begins "Poet affirmeth)." This copy has the regular quire B. Contemporary calf, repaired. With many coat-of-arms. ESTC R177735; Wing G2219A. Printer's name from Wing. This is an imprint variant of G2219 "printed by T.R. for Richard Blome." The text setting is identical for both. With marginal notes. The several "fourth" editions of 1660, and the fifth and sixth "editions" of 1664 and 1666, are all issues of the sheets of the fourth edition, with variations in the preliminaries, and in the inclusion or placement of various parts of the work. Good.

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