1895-1902 Visitation of England and Wales

Description

Colour Plates, Folding Plates, Illustrated, Limited Edition, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, Scarce, Signed

The first editions of three volumes from this impressive thirty-five volume limited edition work, published between 1893 and 1921. Being volumes three, four, and ten only. Limited to five hundred copies printed at Crisp's private press, and signed by Frederick Arthur Crisp. Containing a vast wealth of English and Welsh pedigrees and supporting documentation. The "Visitations" series records the genealogical information contained in the Herald's Visitations of the 16th and 17th centuries. These volumes mainly consist of pedigrees, but there are also some wills, land records, extracts from parish registers, copies of monumental brasses, etc. This set contains: Volume III, 1895. No. 317. Illustrated with eighteen plates and two folding colour plates. Volume IV, 1896. No. 317. Illustrated with twenty-seven plates, many of which are in colour, and one folding colour plate. Volume X, 1902. No. 168. Illustrated with fourteen images across ten plates. Collated complete. Written by Joseph Jackson Howard, an English genealogist, and Frederick Arthur Crisp, a British academic, collector, and expert in heraldry.