Tracings of arms
Reference code
WIT/01
Title
Tracings of arms
Date
1831
Level of description
Series
Extent and format
Paper; pp. 1-187, 189-381, 383-543 + ff. xix. Three volumes.
Folio.
Half leather binding, brown, with marbled boards.
John Gough Nichol's sale, Sotheby's, Dec.1874. Bookplates of Sir William Richard Drake, FSA, Arthur Vicars, Ulster, FSA, Gerald Matthew Bayliss, and the Heraldry Society, on front pastedowns of each volume.
Folio.
Half leather binding, brown, with marbled boards.
John Gough Nichol's sale, Sotheby's, Dec.1874. Bookplates of Sir William Richard Drake, FSA, Arthur Vicars, Ulster, FSA, Gerald Matthew Bayliss, and the Heraldry Society, on front pastedowns of each volume.
Scope and content
'Arms, Banners, and Standards, of the Royal Family and of the Nobility & Gentry temp: K. Henry viii..'. Copied by Thomas Willement from MS 1.2 in the College of Arms; Willement's signature on each title page. Three volumes, containing laid-down tracings of arms. Indexes of mottoes, subjects and names in Vol. III, fols. i-xix. Willement was allowed to trace the arms in 1829-31; see Lord Howard de Walden's edition (The De Walden Library, 1904), introduction, p. v.
Creator
Willement, Thomas (1786-1871), stained glass and heraldic artist and antiquary
Previous reference number(s)
SAL/MS/1005/1-3
Archival history
Deposited with MSS/1003.