Heraldry is the fascinating science and art of designing, displaying, describing and recording coats of arms and badges, as well as the formal ceremonies and laws that regulate the use and inheritance of arms. The origins of heraldry lie in the need to distinguish participants in battles or jousts, whose faces were hidden by steel helmets.
Arthur Charles Fox-Davies' (1871-1928) was a noted British author on this subject, and wrote a number of books in correction to it.
One of his more famous ones was 'Armorial Families'. This fourth edition of 'Armorial Families' written in 1904, and consisting of nearly 1500 pages, is an alphabetical listing of British families together with their various coats of arms and mottoes as in 1902. It also has a brief biography of the head of the family, including parentage, spouse or spouses and children, and the name of the gentlemen's club to which the individual belonged, so there is more in the book than a simple list of armorial bearings. Not all the coats of arms are illustrated, so a knowledge of how they are described in heraldry may be required to match the description with something passed down in the family.
The CD contains digitally enhanced images of the whole of the original book, which is fully searchable, bookmarked, and is printable.
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