The Antiquities Of Heraldry: Collected From The Literature, Coins, Gems, Vases, And Other Monuments Of Pre-christian And Mediaeval Times
- Author(s): William Smith Ellis
- Category: Coins & Currency
- Publisher: Jhon Russell Smith
- Publish year: 1869
- ISBN: 9678000003225
- Number of Pages: 348
THE title page of this work contains a sufficient apology for its appearance before the public. In this volume are brought together a very much larger collection of new facts on the subject than has ever before appeared in any work on Heraldry ; and whilst the collocation and treatment of old facts is also new, no work has ever discussed the subject inductively so fully or widely, or employed the views and arguments which are here exhibited for the first time.
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Copyright
THE ANTIQUES OF HERALDRY
PREFACE
CONTENTS
EXPLANATION OF PLATES
CHAPTER I. ANCIENT ASIATIC AND EGYPTIAN HERALDRY
CHAPTER II. HERALDRY OF SIMPLE AND MINGLED COLOURS ON COSTUME, BANNERS AND SHIELDS
CHAPTER III. HERALDRY OF THE ANCIENT MEXICANS, AND OF THE NORTH-AMERICAN INDIANS
CHAPTER IV. HERALDRY OF THE ANCIENT GREEKS AND ROMANS
CHAPTER V. HERALDRY OF MYTHOLOGY
CHAPTER VI. HERALDIC ORIGIN OF MANY FAMILY AND LOCAL NAMES
CHAPTER VII. ON THE MODES OF TRANSMISSION OF HERALDIC SYMBOLS FROM ANCIENT TO MODERN TIMES
CHAPTER VIII. MEDIAEVAL HERALDRY
CHAPTER IX. ARMORIAL SEALS OF THE TWELFTH AND THIRTEENTH CENTURIES; WITH ILLUSTRATIVE PEDIGREES OF BARONIAL FAMILIES
CHAPTER X. ARGUMENTS AGAINST THE PRESUMED ORIGIN OF HERALDRY IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY
APPENDIX
INDEX OF ARMS