Some Feudal Coats of Arms Joseph Foster History & Culture

The first edition of this lavishly illustrated study into feudal coats of arms, illustrated with many colour zinco etchings throughout. The first edition of this work.An impressively detailed study into feudal coats of arms, offering a fascinating look into historical heraldry.The illustrations are taken from the Bayeux tapestry, various Greek vases, and heraldic rolls.Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, illustrated title page, two plates, and many in-text colour and monochrome zinco etchings.Collated, complete.With the bookplates of Thornhill of Shropshire, and of Michael Cecil de Courcy Peele to the front pastedown.Loosely inserted are fourteen typed pages of notes on the 'Arms of Shrewsbury' and on Shropshire.Compiled by the English genealogist Joseph Foster. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Bumping to back strip head and tail. Significant fading and damp staining to fore edge of boards, not penetrating to pastedowns. Front hinge strained and a touch tender. Bookplates to front pastedown. Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Good