DECORATIVE HERALDRY. A Practical Handbook of its Artistic Treatment.

First edition, first printing. One of 130 copies printed on Japanese vellum. Contemporary full navy morocco by Fazakerley of Liverpool with a gilt single ruled border to the boards, five raised bands and gilt titles to the spine. Gilt decorated inner dentelles. Top edge gilt. Color frontispiece, four colour plates, a copperplate, and 183 illustrations in the text. Title page printed in black and red. A fine copy, the binding square and firm with a few light marks to the leather. The contents, with a few spots to the bottom edge of the text block and occasionally to the margins, are otherwise clean throughout and without stamps or inscriptions. Scarce in the limited edition.

This example is numbered 104 of 130 copies printed on Japanese vellum. George William Eve was an etcher known for his bookplates and also member of the Herald's College. His knowledge of and interest in heraldry strongly influenced his work, with his bookplates, some of which were commissioned by the royal family, often featuring armorial motifs. This is the first of two books that he wrote on heraldry.