
Living and Working in Seventeenth-Century England
An Encyclopedia of Drawings and Descriptions from Randle Holme's Original Manuscripts for "the Academy of Armory" (1688)
The British Library Publishing Division
Published on 31. October 2000
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CD-ROM
978-0-7123-4712-9 (ISBN)
Description
Randle Holme, an antiquary living in 17th-century England, conceived the idea of publishing a fully illustrated manual of heraldry. Over the years the idea became a vast encyclopedic record of everyday life and work, noted especially for the detailed depictions of early machinery.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
British Library Publishing
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
col.
ISBN-13
978-0-7123-4712-9 (9780712347129)
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