English heraldry / [Charles Boutell].

  • Charles Boutell
Date:
1889
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: English heraldry / [Charles Boutell]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    No 2. No. i. No. 3. St. Edward. St. George. St Edmund. PREFACE. This little Volume, specially prepared for the use of students at an early period of their study of English Heraldry, commends itself also to those inquirers who may desire to obtain some general information on the same subject, without having any intention to devote to Heraldry much either of their time or of their serious regard. The success, no less extraordinary than gratifying, of my larger work on Heraldry, led me to hope that a not less favourable reception might be extended to a simpler and much shorter essay, more decidedly elementary in its aim and character, and yet as far as possible within its limits complete. Such a treatise I have endeavoured to produce in this Volume. Inseparably associated with the History of our Country, and more particularly when our national History becomes a Biography of eminent Englishmen, English Heraldry has
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