academy of armory, or, A storehouse of armory and blazon
Subtitle: containing the several variety of created beings, and how born in coats of arms, both foreign and domestick. With the instruments used in all trades and sciences, together with their terms of art, also the etymologies, definitions, and historical observations on the same, explicated and explained according to our modern language
By: by Randle Holme.
Publisher: Printed for the author
Published: 1688
Place of publication: Chester
Language: eng
Subjects: Heraldry.
Other titles: Academy of armory.; Storehouse of armory and blazon.
Notes: Added t.-p. engr. by P. Edwards.

Three books, each paged separately: 7 p. l., 107, (9) p.; 1 l., 488 p.; 1 l., 502 p.

Extends only through liber III, ch. 13. The contents includes liber III, ch. 14-21, and liber IV, ch. 1-15, as "ready for the press" ... "if encouraged by liberal and free contributors." A unique copy in the Royal library at Windsor contains 191 printed pages of this portion. In 1905 all that could be found of it, liber III, ch. 14-22, and liber IV, ch. 4-13, was printed for the Roxburghe clubfrom the ms. in the British museum (Harleian ms. 2033-35).

Second vol. not published until 1905.