Blakeway, The Late Reverend John Brickdale.
THE SHERIFFS OF SHROPSHIRE With Their Armorial Bearings; And Notices, Genealogical and Biographical, of Their Families. Shrewsbury Printed by William and John Eddowes ... 1831. Large folio. 49 x 31cm. vi + 259pp. + 47 legible manuscript leaves Lithographic port frontis., title page device, numerous armorial shields with many hand coloured. Numerous blanks to rear. Neat scholarly annotations in part, marbled e.ps., sporadic browning, inner gilt tooled turn-ins, bound by Eddowes in full gilt tooled calf, two sm. portions lacking to fore and lower edge, intricate gilt tooled borders to boards surrounding geometic and traditional gilt tooling, skilfully rebacked with much of original spine laid down lacking complete lower and part of next compartment of original spine, t.e.g. [And]. THE SHERIFFS OF SHROPSHIRE 1831 TO 1886, With Their Armorial Bearings; and Notices, Genealogical and Biographical, of Their Families: Being a Continuation of the Reverend John Brickdale Blakeway’s Work. Shrewsbury: Printed and Published by Bunny and Davies ... 1886. Small Paper Ed. Folio. 45.5. x 28.5 cm. 91pp. With armorial shields. Upper hinge cracked, light foxing, with the signature of ‘William Brea .. Oxon’, mustard cloth backed boards with paper label to spine, some fraying, spine bumped, boards with loss to extremities and discoloured.
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¶ Additional manuscript leaves of first volume giving details of Sir Edward Joseph Smythe Baronet, William Oakeley, Walter Moseley, Henry Wentworth Powys Esq, Sir Baldwin Leighton, Sir William Edward Rouse Boughton, Thomas Henry Hope, William Wolryche Whitmore, Peter Broughton, Thomas Eyton, Gustavus Frederick John James Hamilton, Henry Justice, Sir Andrew Vincent Corbet, John Charles Burton Borough, St. John Chiverton Charlton, Richard Henry Kinchant, William Henry Francis Plowden, Panton Corbett, Ralph Merrick Leeke. All of whom are included in the Supplementary Voilume.

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Keywords: HISTORY; HERALDRY