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Miscellaneous collection of coats of arms : manuscript decorated, [1830?].

BIB_ID
81817
Accession number
MA 3674
Display Date
[1830?].
Credit line
Bequest of Margaret Woodbury Strong, 1969.
Description
1 item (307 p.) ; 27.8 cm
Notes
Possibly compiled by or for Emily Tyrwhitt, whose coat of arms is on the verso of the title.
The Armorial is not dated, however the paper is watermarked 1830.
Provenance
Bookplate of P.B.M. Allan with signed note "Contains 1,191 Coats of Arms. / Bought from Poynder the Reading bookseller, 9 April 1913 / The best coat is on page 75."
Summary
Being a collection of 1,191 pen and hand-colored drawings of coats of arms with genealogical and heraldic notes on facing pages and in the text.