An essay to heraldry in two parts. The first containing ... the body of heraldry: the second, honour civil and military; being a treatise of the nobility and gentry of England ... The whole illustrated with variety of ... sculptures .. (1684)
Blome, Richard, d. 1705 · London, Printed by T.B. for Rich. Blome .. · leaf 327
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Heraldry · Nobility
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