Author
Bedford, W. K. Riland (William Kirkpatrick Riland), 1826-1905
Title
The blazon of episcopacy : being the arms borne by or attributed to the Achbishops and Bishops of England and Wales with an ordinary of the coats described and of other episcopal arms / by W. K. Riland Bedford.
Edition
Second edition, / revised and enlarged with one thousand illustrations.
Imprint
Oxford : at the Clarendon Press, 1897.
Physical description
x, [2], 274, [2] p., lxxxi leaves of plates : ill. (coats of arms) ; 26 cm
Note
With half-title "The blazon of episcopy Bedford" on recto and arms of the University of Oxford and "Henry Frowde, M.A. Publisher to the University of Oxford London, Edinburgh, Glasgow and New York" on verso.
Note
"An ordinary of episcopal arms arranged on the plan of Papworth's "Dictionary of British armorials" by which the names of Bishops of England, Scotland, and Ireland, whose arms are found on buildings, monuments, seals, paintings, plate, etc., whether ancient or modern, can be readily ascertained" has divisional half-title page on leaf M3r; pagination and register continuous.
Note
Signatures: A⁶ B-S⁸ chi² (-chi2).
Note
With a final advertisement leaf.
Note
On title page verso: Oxford printed at the Clarendon Press by Horace Hart, M.A. printer to the University.
Provenance
Salisbury Cathedral Library bookplate (19th century) with 13th-century Dean and Chapter seal and inscription “Sarum Cathedral Library.”
Copy-specific note
Loose inside: numerous typescript notes, manuscript letters (dated between 1992 and 2001) and illustrations concerning heraldry, chiefly relating to bishops and archbishops. Now in Loose Inserts Box.
Subject
Church of England
Subject
Catholic Church
Subject
Heraldry, Sacred Great Britain.
Subject
Bishops England Heraldry.
Subject
Bishops Wales Heraldry.
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