170 - [HERALDRY] ROGER, Paul. Nobility and Chivalry of the Counties of Flanders, Artois, and Picardy.

[HERALDRY] ROGER, Paul. Nobility and Chivalry of the Counties of Flanders, Artois, and Picardy. Amiens, Duval and Herment Printing House, 1843. In-8, purple half-basane, smooth spine decorated with fillets and the title in gilt lettering, speckled edges (contemporary binding). 400 pages, 1 engraved frontispiece by Delaporte after Duthoit, numerous woodcut vignettes (a title vignette, numerous headers, initials, in-text illustrations, and tailpieces), 11 engraved and pasted-in plates, including 10 plates of coats of arms. Binding is rubbed and fragile (the joint is completely split on the front cover and partially split on the back cover), top edge trimmed, foxing more pronounced in the margins. First edition illustrated with a frontispiece, numerous woodcuts, and 11 separate plates, including 10 plates of coats of arms. An important historical work by the scholar Paul Roger (1812–1894), tracing the origins, feats of arms, genealogies, and feudal structures of the lords of the counties of Flanders and Artois, as well as the province of Picardy. Embossed bookplate by Paul de Wint on the blank endpaper; a few handwritten annotations in ink from the period. Plates are crisp and well-preserved.