A genealogical history of the kings of England, and monarchs of Great Britain, &c. : from the Conquest, anno 1066, to the year 1677 : in seven parts or books containing a discourse of their several lives, marriages, and issues ... with their effigies, seals, tombs ... all engraven in copper plates : furnished with several remarques and annotations
A 1677 genealogical history of the kings of England and monarchs of Great Britain by Francis Sandford, printed in the Savoy, London, for the author and aimed at readers of royal history and heraldry. The plates are engraved copper illustrations of royal seals, effigies and coats of arms, arranged as dense numbered groups on each page, with circular seal matrices of enthroned and mounted kings set among small shield and crest roundels. A designer could take from them the formal circular medallion layout, the ornate lettered legends running around each seal rim, and the crisp fine-line engraving typical of seventeenth-century heraldic plates.
