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Butters, Laurence & MacLaren, Joseph

Fairbairn's Crests of the Families of Great Britain and Ireland......revised By Butters & Edited By MacLaren

Edinburg Thomas C. Jack 1860, First Edition Cloth - the first of this important revised edition - in two volumes - engraved title, vii, 611 pp., golssary, appendicies - engraved title, 144 plates, 44 pp., plate index, 12 pp. - list of subscribers . The first volume an alphabetical list of names with written description of dominant symbols, the second volume with 15 crests illustrated per page . Bound in brown gilt and blind stamped original cloth - hinges of plate volume starting, narrow chipping spine top - old lib. stamps verso tp., and lightly on text blocks else a very nice tight set with clean bright spines. Interesting provenance - signature on the fly leaves of - " John Bruce...Coach Builder....Haugh St......Edinburgh ....1863 " - a very scarce and desirable edition .

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