Sir William Dugdale

Property from an Upper East Side Collection.

Rare copies of Dugdale's history of the Baronage of England from the Norman conquest to the 15th century.

• Sold as a set of 2.
• William Dugdale, Norroy King of Arms (English).
• Vol. 1: The baronage of England, or An historical account of the lives and most memorable actions of our English nobility in the Saxons time, to the Norman conquest; and from thence, of those who had their rise before the end of King Henry the Third's reign.
• Vols. 2-3. After the end of King Henry the Third's reign. And before the eleventh year of King Richard the Second.
• London: Printed by Tho. Newcomb, for Abel Roper, John Martin, and Henry Herringman, at the Sun in Fleetstreet, the Bell in S. Pauls Churchyard, and at the Anchor in the Lower Walk of the New Exchange, 1675-1676.
• Modern binding in full calf brown leather with contrast title and set plates and tooled boards.
• Includes loose book Coats of Arms, Leading Irish Families by P. Murphy with 19 plates of color coats of arms.