Books, Artwork, Software, etc.

Books – Literary References – Bookshops – Bookplates – Artwork – Philately – Fabrics – Jewellery – Software – Funding

• At Heraldica – extensive list
• Basic Texts
• List compiled by C. Smith
• The following two series of popular monographs include a number of titles concerned with topics which have some heraldic content:–
  • Pitkin Books
  • Shire Books - including Discovering Heraldry

• The Nebuly Coat by John Meade Falkner

Bookshops

• Specialists in Heraldic Books
  • Heraldry Today, Ramsbury, Wiltshire
  • John Townsend, Winnersh, Wokingham, Berkshire
• Second-Hand Books
  Many heraldry and some genealogical books are only available second-hand. The web can be a useful place to search for second-hand books.
  
  • The Clique – "Book-collecting and library information services since 1890" – with links to specialist shops
  • Provincial Booksellers Fairs Association
  • BookFinder – overarching book finding software and includes:
  • Advanced Book Exchange – seems to cover a particularly good range in the U.K.
  • Alibris
  • Antiqbook
  • Biblion
  • BiblioFind (associated with Amazon)
  • Book Avenue
  • International League of Antiquarian Booksellers
  • Just Books
  • Half
  • TomFolio
  • Used Book Central
• Remaindered Books
  Also a useful source of books not readily available elsewhere.
  
  • Bibliophile

Heraldic Bookplates

• Cyber Journal of Heraldic Bookplates

Heraldic Artwork

• Andrew Stewart Jamieson – extensive site
• Site of Ian G. Brennan – heraldic sculptor (with links to crests of Knights of the Garter and Knights of the Bath)
• The heraldic ceiling of St Machar's Cathedral, Aberdeen
• Heraldry, Calligraphy and Illumination
• Heraldic Plaques
• Heraldry from J.C. Signs and Scenes
• Queens' College, Cambridge
• Wall plaques
• Arms of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge on the sail of a ship
• Heraldry Clipart
• List of heraldic clipart sites
• Heraldic clipart at "Fotosearch" (more than 100 images available)
• Obituary of Sir David Hughes, Bt (from The Daily Telegraph, Thursday, May 22nd, 2003) – heraldic sculptor

Heraldic Philately

• "The Queen's Beasts" stamps – issued by the Royal Mail in February 1998 to commemorate the 650th anniversary of the Order of the Garter
• A Thematic Philatelic Exhibition by Nahum Shereshevsky
• Links
• Royalty Collections

Fabrics

• Heraldic Needlepoint makes cushions showing coats of arms, crests and badges of British schools, universities, university colleges (including Cambridge colleges) and army regiments
• Crested Cushions – supply bespoke cushions with full armorial bearings, shield only, crest only, etc. hand-worked in gold, silver or coloured threads on velvet

Jewellery

• Of universities (from Rubinstein Keightley)

Heraldic Software

• Blazons
• International Illustrated Glossary – to translate the blazon between different languages
• "Heraldry hopes" – enquiry to newpaper (from The Daily Telegraph – March 15th, 2001)
• Puncher Heraldry Program
• From the Victoria and Albert Museum

Funding for Research

• Marc Fitch Fund – "for research and publication in the fields of archaeology, historical geography, history of art and architecture, heraldry and genealogy, surnames, catalogues of and use of archives (especially ecclesiastical), conservation of artefacts, and other antiquarian, archaeological or historical studies"

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