Heraldo Memoriale : Or Memoirs of the College of Arms from 1727 to 1744.

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Quarter morocco and brown boards, top edge gilt, 8vo, xv, 120 pp, coloured portrait frontispiece. The contemporary journal of Stephen Martin Leake, sometime Garter King of Arms, recording much about the College of Arms and his struggles with John Anstis the elder. Howard M. Nixon's copy, with his name asterisked in red in the list of members. Laid in is a carbon copy of a typescript letter from Nixon (one page, with copy two-page appendix of extracts from records) to Sir Anthony Wagner, thanking him for and discussing the book, copies of which were presented by Wagner to Roxburghe Club members. Head of spine rubbed and worn, otherwise Near Fine. N° de ref. del artículo ABE-42598

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