Author : James Fairbairn
Release : 2012-02-03
Genre : Reference
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Fairbairn’s Crests of the Families of Great Britain and Ireland - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fairbairn’s Crests of the Families of Great Britain and Ireland write by James Fairbairn. This book was released on 2012-02-03. Fairbairn’s Crests of the Families of Great Britain and Ireland available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In two volumes. Volume I: 601 pages including a 522 page index of family names, in alphabetical order, describing the crest of every name listed and where to find an illustration in the volume of plates; a glossary of heraldic terms and other words; and nearly seventy pages of family mottoes with translations of those in Latin, French or other foreign languages. Volume II: contains 130 plates, each depicting 15 family crests in b&w and a further 18 plates illustrating regalia, insignia, crowns, flags, monograms, arms of principal cities etc. also in b&w. There is a key to all the plates which, in the case of the crests, shows which families have which crest.