[Rarebooks] FS: Gerard Legh's 1597 well illustrated work on heraldry.

[Kenneth Karmiole]

(HERALDRY) [Legh, Gerard]. THE ACCEDENCE OF ARMORIE. (London: Henrie Ballard. 1597). Sm. 4to. ff.(7),135,(2). Title within a full-page woodcut, 2 full-page text cuts, with dozens of woodcut coats-of-arms, and with the folding woodcut plate often lacking. Early 19th century polished calf, rebacked with the old pine with red morocco label, laid down. With the armorial bookplate of Thomas Bond.              $1,500.00 (trade discount allowed)
STC 15392.  A very popular work, first printed in 1562, a 6th. edition appears in 1612.

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