Heraldo Memoriale : Or Memoirs of the College of Arms from 1727 to 1744
by Leake, S.M. ; Wagner, Sir Anthony R
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Howard M. Nixon's copy, with his name asterisked in red in the list of members. Laid in is a carbon copy of a typescript let
- Seller
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LONDON, Aberdeen, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Printed for presentation to the Roxburghe Club, London, first edition, 1981. Quarter morocco and brown boards, top edge gilt, 8vo,. xv, 120 pp, coloured portrait frontispiece. The contemporary journal of Stephen Martin Leake, sometime Garter King of Arms, recording much about the College of Arms and his struggles with John Anstis the elder. Howard M. Nixon's copy, with his name asterisked in red in the list of members. Laid in is a carbon copy of a typescript letter from Nixon (one page, with copy two-page appendix of extracts from records) to Sir Anthony Wagner, thanking him for and discussing the book, copies of which were presented by Wagner to Roxburghe Club members. Head of spine rubbed and worn, otherwise Near Fine.
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- Bookseller
- Wykeham Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BIBLIO-42598
- Title
- Heraldo Memoriale : Or Memoirs of the College of Arms from 1727 to 1744
- Author
- Leake, S.M. ; Wagner, Sir Anthony R
- Format/Binding
- Quarter morocco and brown boards, top edge gilt, 8vo,
- Book Condition
- Used - Howard M. Nixon's copy, with his name asterisked in red in the list of members. Laid in is a carbon copy of a typescript let
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Printed for presentation to the Roxburghe Club, London, first edition, 1981
- Date Published
- 1981
- Pages
- xv, 120 pp, coloured portrait frontispiece
- Keywords
- College of Arms (Great Britain) Heralds - Great Britain Leake, Stephen Martin;Wagner, Sir Anthony Richard; Roxburghe Club;College of, Arms ; College of Arms Roxburghe Club
- Bookseller catalogs
- Roxburghe Club;
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About the Seller
Wykeham Books
Biblio member since 2005
LONDON, Aberdeen
About Wykeham Books
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- Morocco
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