Heraldry as Art: An Account of Its Development & Practice England G W Eve 1907

Heraldry as Art:
An Account of Its Development and Practice Chiefly in England

by G W Eve
      
Pub: Batsford, London 1907.

Hardback, top edge gilt.

x, 308 pages, illustrated.


Interesting book, dealing with heraldry from the artist’s point of view, as a decorative subject which offers interesting scope for technical effort.

George William Eve, RE (1855-1914) was an English etcher, who designed bookplates and also several important British stamps. He was an authority on heraldry, a member of the Heralds' College, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers, and a member of the Art Workers' Guild. 

Condition: good+; library bookplate to endpaper, with cancellation stamp, stamp to half-title, and blind-stamp to titlepage.