HERALDRY. Manuscript on paper, 'Alphabet of Arms, [late 17th Century], a very extensive armorial of English families, the majority in a single late 17th-century hand, with additions in at least one other hand, the volume opening with a brief armorial in a third hand, together approx 746 pages, folio (partly paginated, 190-796), 19th-century diced russia. Provenance: G. Michelmore & Co, bt by them at Sotheby's, 31 July 1952, lot 586; Edward Mars Elmhirst, bt by him at Sotheby's, 14 June 1955, lot 427 (his armorial bookplate and inscription); 'J.W.', bt by him at Sotheby's, 20 July 1976, lot 302 (his inscription).