![EDMONDSON, Joseph (bap.1732-1786) working from the notes of William SEGAR (1564?-1633). Baronagium Genealogicum; or the Pedigrees of the English Peers. London: Edmondson, Fletcher, [supplement: J. Walter], 1764-1784.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2015/CKS/2015_CKS_10455_0170_000(edmondson_joseph_working_from_the_notes_of_william_segar_baronagium_ge092718).jpg?w=1)
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EDMONDSON, Joseph (bap.1732-1786) working from the notes of William SEGAR (1564?-1633). Baronagium Genealogicum; or the Pedigrees of the English Peers. London: Edmondson, Fletcher, [supplement: J. Walter], 1764-1784.
6 volumes (including supplement), 2° (527 x 360mm). Letterpress indices and subscribers' lists in vols. 5 and supplement, otherwise engraved throughout. 6 titles by Pranker and Bartolozzi after Cipriani, 6 dedications, 298 coats-of-arms, of which 3 double-page, 380 family trees, of which 104 double-page, and 3 plates of text. (Vol. IV with title torn and lacking half of the engraving, the following dedication leaf with severe tears and consequent loss and with first leaf of coat-of-arms with two major tears just into image, variable browning and spotting, heavier to vol. V.) Contemporary tree calf (rubbed and worn, covers missing from vol. IV, a number of other covers detached, remains of a few spine labels).
'As a book of general reference, one of great utility [with] arms finely engraved' (Lowndes). Brunet V, 259; Lowndes II, p.715. Sold as a collection of plates, not subject to return.
6 volumes (including supplement), 2° (527 x 360mm). Letterpress indices and subscribers' lists in vols. 5 and supplement, otherwise engraved throughout. 6 titles by Pranker and Bartolozzi after Cipriani, 6 dedications, 298 coats-of-arms, of which 3 double-page, 380 family trees, of which 104 double-page, and 3 plates of text. (Vol. IV with title torn and lacking half of the engraving, the following dedication leaf with severe tears and consequent loss and with first leaf of coat-of-arms with two major tears just into image, variable browning and spotting, heavier to vol. V.) Contemporary tree calf (rubbed and worn, covers missing from vol. IV, a number of other covers detached, remains of a few spine labels).
'As a book of general reference, one of great utility [with] arms finely engraved' (Lowndes). Brunet V, 259; Lowndes II, p.715. Sold as a collection of plates, not subject to return.
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