Dictionary of British Arms: Medieval Ordinary. Volume Four

There is a class of reference books so specialised that most librarians will never use them, but which, to those who need to do so, supply the last word on their chosen subject. In this class is the Dictionary of British Arms (which is scarcely a dictionary in any normal sense of the term). The problem which it addresses is that whereas, if a researcher knows the name of an armigerous person, there are well-known reference books in which the appropriate coat of arms can be found, the position is much more difficult if one encounters only the arms (engraved...