FICTITIOUS & SYMBOLIC CREATURES IN ART WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THEIR USE IN BRITISH HERALDRY; Illustrated
London, England: Chapman and Hall, Limited, 1906. First Edition (NAP). Hardcover. Large Octavo. Brick-red cloth over boards, with mounted St. George vanquishing a winged Dragon, in gilt to front board, and gilt lettering to spine. Light spotting to top (trimmed) edges; the other two edges deckled. Light foxing and VERY occasional foxing throughout. The book proposes "to describe and illlustrate only those fictitious and symbolic creatures which appear in British Heraldry..." and "include(s) all those beings of whose existence we have not the direcd evidence of our senses, and those exaggerations and combinations of natural forms which have been adopted in the system of symbolic heraldry handed down to us from the Middle Ages..."
Included are Celestial Beings, Angels, Cherubim and Seraphim, the Four Evangelists, Chimerical Creaturs of the Dragon and Serpent Kind; The Dragon (in Christian Art, etc.); The Hydra; The Wyvern; The Gorgon; The Cockatrice, The Unicorn; The Scorpion; The Sphynx; The Pegasus; The Griffin or Gryphon; The Opinicus; The Harpy; The Tyger; and many more.
More than 150 illustrations. Very Good. Item #88665
Price: $125.00