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Heraldic Design: Its Origins, Ancient Forms and Modern Usage (Dover Pictorial Archive Series)
Heraldic Design Its Origins Ancient Forms and Modern Usage - Dover Pictorial Archive Series Author:Hubert Allcock Rich sourcebook of approximately 500 black-and-white designs traces history and meaning of the shield, symbols, crests, helmets, and blazonry, with special emphasis on such devices as beasts, monsters, human, and part-human figures. American, British, French, and Russian costs of arms are displayed, as are insignias of the clergy, state seals, a... more »nd modern institutions.« less