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ENGLISH HERALDIC BOOK-STAMPS
THIS FRONTISPIECE
SHOWING
THE BOOK-STAMP OF
HIS MAJESTY THE KING
IS REPRODUCED
BY HIS MAJESTY'S
GRACIOUS PERMISSION.
[FOR DESCRIPTION
See p. 155]
ENGLISH HERALDIC
BOOK-STAMPS
FIGURED AND DESCRIBED
BY
CYRIL DAVENPORT V.D. F.S.A.
AUTHOR OF 'THE BOOK,' ETC.
LONDON
ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE & CO Ltd
1909
CONTENTS
| PAGE | |
|---|---|
| Introduction | 1 |
| Coats-of-Arms | 41 |
| Bibliography | 413 |
| INDICES— | |
| Index to the Introduction | 417 |
| Index to the Coats-of-Arms, etc. | 421 |
Introduction
The coats-of-arms and crests which are figured anddescribed in the following pages do not exhaust thenumber of stamps of this kind that must exist on bookbindingsthroughout England, Scotland, and Ireland.Perhaps some day I shall go on my travels and searchfor unrecorded coats, but the present collection, even ifit should prove to have been only a first instalment, willnot easily be equalled in interest.
Little attention has been hitherto paid to Englishcoats-of-arms outside books. For French coats of thesame kind an excellent and comprehensive handbook hasbeen compiled by M. J. Guigard, Nouvel Armorial duBibliophile, Paris, 1890.
Two short papers have already been written aboutmy present subject, and both of these are illustrated withdrawings by myself. The earlier paper is by Mr. W. Y.Fletcher, and appeared in vol. iii. of Bibliographica in 1897;it is called "English Armorial Book-Stamps and theirOwners." The second paper is by Mr. A. W. Pollard, andappeared in The Library of April 1902; it is called "The[Pg 2]Franks Collection of Armorial Book-Stamps." Thedrawings I made for these two papers were carefully drawnexactly as the stamps were