Historic English Heraldry and Coats
of Arms Reference Collection on CD

The Historic English Heraldry and Coats of Arms Reference Collection contains 34 interesting historic books relating to heraldry and coats of arms in England and its possessions. Many of the books are richly illustrated with hundreds of coats of arms with descriptions of the families they were/are associated with. All the titles contained on this CD are listed below.

1. British heraldry (1921) - Davenport, Cyril - 222 pages
2. Heraldry for craftsmen & designers (1913) - Hope, William Henry St. John, Sir - 426 pages
3. A complete guide to heraldry (1909) - Fox-Davies, Arthur Charles - 647 pages
4. Leopards of England, and other papers on heraldry (1913) - Dorling, E. E. (Edward Earle) - 136 pages
5. A selection of arms authorized by the laws of heraldry (1863) - Burke, Bernard, Sir, - 254 pages
6. Heralds and heraldry in Ben Jonson's plays, masques and entertainments (1907) - Nason, Arthur Huntington - 164 pages
7. Heraldry in England. The history & science of heraldry concisely explained, together with a glossary of terms. The whole illustrated with numerous examples (1889) - Renton, Edward H - 99 pages
8. The heraldic register, 1849-1850 : with an introductory essay on heraldry, and an annotated obituary (1850) - Burke, Bernard, Sir - 263 pages
9. Fictitious and symbolic creatures in art, with special reference to their use in British heraldry (1906) - Vinycomb, John - 276 pages
10. Anecdotes of heraldry, in which is set forth the origin of the armorial bearings of many families (1864) - Elvin, Charles Norton - 184 pages
11. Encyclopaedia heraldica; or, Complete dictionary of heraldry Volume 1. Dictionary of heraldry. Glover's ordinary of arms. (1828-40) - Berry, William; Glover, Robert - 866 pages
12. Encyclopaedia heraldica; or, Complete dictionary of heraldry Volume 3. Plates (1828-40) - Berry, William; Glover, Robert - 150 pages
13. Encyclopaedia heraldica; or, Complete dictionary of heraldry Volume 4. Supplement (1828-40) - Berry, William; Glover, Robert - 624 pages
14. English heraldry; with four hundred and fifty illus. drawn and engraved on wood by R. B. Utting (1907) - Boutell, Charles - 347 pages
15. Wreath of heraldry, or, A dissertation on symbolic devices : together with the origin of names, Saxon etymologies, etc. (183?) - Thorold, John - 112 pages
16. Practical heraldry : or, an epitome of English armory, showing how and by whom arms may be borne or acquired, how pedigrees may be traced or family histories ascertained (1889) - Worthy, Charles - 250 pages
17. The heraldry of York Minister; a key to the history of its builders and benefactors. As shewn in the stained-glass windows and in the carved work in stone (1890) - Cust, Arthur Perceval Purey - 412 pages
18. The peerage of England : a complete view of the several orders of nobility ... together with an introduction, shewing the high and illustrious extraction of our most gracious sovereign: also an historical account of all the offices of state, usually filled by the nobility, the arms of the all the Lords spiritual and temporal, three useful plates teaching the art of heraldry, &c. &c. &c. (1766) - Kimber, Edward - 252 pages
19. An alphabetical dictionary of coats of arms belonging to families in Great Britain and Ireland : forming an extensive ordinary of British armorials : upon an entirely new plan Volume 1 (1874) - Papworth, John W. (John Woody); Morant, Alfred William Whitehead - 576 pages
20. An alphabetical dictionary of coats of arms belonging to families in Great Britain and Ireland : forming an extensive ordinary of British armorials : upon an entirely new plan Volume 2 (1874) - Papworth, John W. (John Woody); Morant, Alfred William Whitehead - to page 1125
21. Armorial families : a directory of gentlemen of coat-armour (1905) - Fox-Davies, Arthur Charles - 1524 pages
22. The book of public arms : a complete encyclopędia of all royal, territorial, municipal, corporate, official, and impersonal arms (1915) - Fox-Davies, Arthur Charles - 899 pages
23. The right to bear arms (1900) - Fox-Davies, Arthur Charles - 246 pages
24. Royal descent; (1892) - Wilcox, Arthur Marwood; Metcalf, John Henry - 52 pages
25. Grantees of arms named in docquets and patents to the end of the seventeenth century,in the manuscripts preserved in the British museum, the Bodleian library, Oxford, Queens college, Oxford, Gonville and Caius college, Cambridge, and elsewhere, alphabetically arranged by the late Joseph Foster and contained in the Additional ms. no. 37,147, in the British museum. Ed. by W. Harry Rylands (1915) - Foster, Joseph; Rylands, William Harry - 290 pages
26. The Roll of arms of the princes, barons, and knights who attended King Edward I. to the Siege of Caerlaverock in 1300 (1864) - Wright, Thomas - 39 pages
27. The siege of Carlaverock in the XXVIII Edward I. A.D. MCCC; with the arms of the earls, barons, and knights, who were present on the occasion; with a translation, a history of the castle, and memoirs of the personages commemorated by the poet. By Nicholas Harris Nicolas (1828) - Nicolas, Nicholas Harris, Sir - 380 pages
28. Three rolls of arms of the latter part of the thirteenth century, together with an index of names and an alphabetical ordinary of the coats (1864) - Walford, Weston Styleman; Perceval, Charles Spencer - 99 pages
29. Two Tudor books of arms; Harleian Mss. nos. 2169 & 6163 (1904) - Foster, Joseph - 328 pages
30. Banners, standards, and badges, from a Tudor manuscript in the College of Arms (1904) - Howard de Walden, Thomas Evelyn Scott-Ellis, Baron - 307 pages
31. Royal book of crests of Great Britain and Ireland, Dominion of Canada, India and Australasia : derived from best authorities and family records Volume 1 (1883) - Fairbairn, James - 575 pages
32. Royal book of crests of Great Britain and Ireland, Dominion of Canada, India and Australasia : derived from best authorities and family records Volume 2 (1883) - Fairbairn, James - 172 pages
33. Some fedual coats of arms and others. Illustrated with 2,000 zinco (1902) - Foster, Joseph - 238 pages
34. Fairbairn's crests of the leading families in Great Britain and Ireland and their kindred in other lands (1911) - Fairbairn, James; Butters, Laurence; MacLaren, Joseph - 613 pages

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