Product: Book ISBN-10: 0-486-24993-X ISBN-13: 9780486249933 Publisher: Dover Publications Country: Year: July 1, 1987 Size: 20.57 x 27.43 x 1.02cm Number of pages: 48 Weight: 181gr Binding: Paperback
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Product Description Design your own personal coat of arms. Detailed, easy-to-follow instructions make it easy even for beginners to fashion emblems that reflect family origins, traits and accomplishments. Decorate plates, mugs and stationary or create wallhangings, sew-on patches, T-shirt decals, pin-on badges and much more.
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Design your own coat of arms: an introduction to heraldry
Great book for beginner Heralds!!!
cute book
a very good book, as it explains heradlry terms, and makes it simple to create your own device.
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Great Book!
Perfect resource guide for my unit on the Middle Ages. Very quick shipment and in perfect condition. Great job!
Elementary
This book provides a very elementary introduction to Heraldry. The basic layout of a Coat of Arms is discussed, including a very brief history, along with the rules of placement and description for the major elements. The author also includes some discussion of the prevailing Heraldry of countries around the world, including medieval countries. The appendixes include elements for the user to trace or imitate when creating their own Coat of Arms. Lastly there is some contact information for organizations involved with Heraldry.
The book lacks depth. It provides nothing resembling an exhaustive list of elements; only a few basic forms and styles are covered. Further there is nil discussion concerning the meaning of the elements presented. The most a reader can learn is that crowns and lions rampant are symbols of Royalty, and some of that we have to infer. The work feels directed to early middle school children and should probably be marked as Young Reader.
Better for older children
In this book there is more historical information, and descriptions. Great for older children that can draw well.