The Roll of Arms of Peers and Knights on the Reign of Edward the Second from a Contemporary MS

The Roll of Arms of Peers and Knights on the Reign of Edward the Second from a Contemporary MS by Nicolas, Nicholas Harris (editor) — front cover
Binding:Hardcover
Size:6 - 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
Volume Condition:Good
Dust Jacket:No
Edition:1st Edition
Impression:1st Impression
Language:English
Publisher Name: William Pickering
Publication Year:1828
Publication Place:London, UK
SKU:037311
Categories: History - British
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Catalogue(s): History - British
First edition, first impression.Β  [4], xxii, [4], 166, [2]pp, with one facsimile and one hand-coloured plate.Β  In a likely later binding of orange cloth-covered boards.Β  8vo.Β  Cloth a little rounded at ends of a sunned spine, mild dark mark on rear panel.Β  Β Bookplate of Peter Spencer Spokes FSA on the front paste down.Β  Pages are a little browned and spotted, more heavily on facsimile and plate, and occasional neat, faint pencil annotations in margins else internally neat and clean.Β  Firmly bound and square. Peter Spencer Spokes was an architectural historian and photographer, a fellow of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of London and one time Lord Mayor and alderman of Oxford; he spent much of his working life at the Bodleian Library in Oxford. The Roll of Arms details the coats of arms of peers and knights during the period 1307-1327, the reign of Edward II, providing a comprehensive examination of heraldry in the early 14th century.
Keywords: Edward II Heraldry Manuscripts Medieval Studies Medieval England Knights

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