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FAIRFAX OF GILLING CASTLE-- The Genealogy of the most ancient and noble Family of Fairfax of Gilling Castle in the County of York originally Walton of Walton in the same County ... (Collected under the immediate Direction of Thomas BAron Fairfax of Cameron during the reigns of Charles I and II), collected ... by William Radclyffe, 1828. MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM, 12 leaves, folio (595 x 445mm), comprising title, names of the quarterings with illuminated headpiece of the family arms, full-page illumination of the complete coat of arms, and nine leaves written on one side of the genealogical table, with 43 smaller coats of arms, with other decorations, final blank. Contemporary red morocco, covers gilt with floral scrolls and centrepiece, spine gilt (slightly rubbed at extremities), dentelles gilt on green morocco, watered silk doublures and liners with gilt borders, g.e.
FAIRFAX OF GILLING CASTLE-- The Genealogy of the most ancient and noble Family of Fairfax of Gilling Castle in the County of York originally Walton of Walton in the same County ... (Collected under the immediate Direction of Thomas BAron Fairfax of Cameron during the reigns of Charles I and II), collected ... by William Radclyffe, 1828. MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM, 12 leaves, folio (595 x 445mm), comprising title, names of the quarterings with illuminated headpiece of the family arms, full-page illumination of the complete coat of arms, and nine leaves written on one side of the genealogical table, with 43 smaller coats of arms, with other decorations, final blank. Contemporary red morocco, covers gilt with floral scrolls and centrepiece, spine gilt (slightly rubbed at extremities), dentelles gilt on green morocco, watered silk doublures and liners with gilt borders, g.e.

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FAIRFAX OF GILLING CASTLE-- The Genealogy of the most ancient and noble Family of Fairfax of Gilling Castle in the County of York originally Walton of Walton in the same County ... (Collected under the immediate Direction of Thomas BAron Fairfax of Cameron during the reigns of Charles I and II), collected ... by William Radclyffe, 1828. MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM, 12 leaves, folio (595 x 445mm), comprising title, names of the quarterings with illuminated headpiece of the family arms, full-page illumination of the complete coat of arms, and nine leaves written on one side of the genealogical table, with 43 smaller coats of arms, with other decorations, final blank. Contemporary red morocco, covers gilt with floral scrolls and centrepiece, spine gilt (slightly rubbed at extremities), dentelles gilt on green morocco, watered silk doublures and liners with gilt borders, g.e.

A beautiful genealogy of the influential Yorkshire family from the reigns of King John and Henry III, with its marriages and alliances, until Charles Gregory Pigot, who changed his name to Fairfax in 1793, and of his children in 1828.

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