A Complete Guide to Heraldry, Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, Graham Johnston, 1909
A Complete Guide to Heraldry, by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, of Lincoln's Inn, Barrister-at-Law. Illustrated by Nine Plates in Colour and Nearly 800 Other Designs, Mainly from Drawings by Graham Johnston, Herald Painter to the Lyon Court.
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Published by T.C. & E.C. Jack, London and Edinburgh, 1909. First edition.
A good beige cloth hardback with printed cover design. Covered in protective plastic (removable). Covers with some soiling and staining. Offsetting and spotting to endpapers with dust toned edges.
Text is clear and colourful plates are still vibrant. The margins of pages have spotting throughout. Gilt top edge to text block. All 9 Colour Plates as called for. An imperfect, but perfectly usable, and now scarce, first edition.
Text in English
xii + 647pp + Plates.
Weight: approximately 1390g unpacked.
Dimensions:
Approximately 243mm high x 175mm wide x 55mm deep.