Armilogia sive Ars chromocritica, the language of arms by the colours & metals: being analogically handled according to the nature of things, and fitted with apt motto's to the heroical science of herauldry in the symbolical world. Whereby is discovered what is signified by every honourable partition, ordinary, or charge, usually born in coat-armour, and mythologized to the heroical theam [sic] of Homer on the shield of Achilles. A work of this nature never yet extant. By Sylvanus Morgan arms-painter

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  • Armilogia sive Ars chromocritica, the language of arms by the colours & metals: being analogically handled according to the nature of things, and fitted with apt motto's to the heroical science of herauldry in the symbolical world. Whereby is discovered what is signified by every honourable partition, ordinary, or charge, usually born in coat-armour, and mythologized to the heroical theam [sic] of Homer on the shield of Achilles. A work of this nature never yet extant. By Sylvanus Morgan arms-painter
  • Ars chromocritica; Language of arms by the colours & metals
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Imprint
London : Printed by T. Hewer for Nathaniel Brook at the Angel in Cornhil, and Henry Eversden at the Greyhound in S. Pauls Church-yard, 1666.
Added name
Manchester, Edward Montagu, Earl of, 1602-1671, dedicatee.; Hewer, Thomas, active 1638-1659, printer?.; Brooke, Nathaniel, bookseller.; Eversden, Henry, bookseller.
Publication year
1666
ESTC No.
R16382
Grub Street ID
64241
Description
[16], 239, [25] p. : coats of arms, ill., 1 port ; 4°.
Note
Woodcut head-pieces; woodcut initials

Includes indices

Includes a portrait of the author

Dedicated to Edward Montagu, Earl of Manchester, whose coat of arms is printed on the title page verso

Signatures: A-2M]4.