HERALDICA'S ARMORIAL GENERAL

Above: The front and back covers of Heraldica's Armorial General.

The text on the Back Cover:

Heraldica's Armorial General is the culmination of years of effort by Jos頃uchi, President of Heraldica Imports, to produce an easy to use and comprehensive reference book for those with some interest in heraldry, specifically those engaged in selling heraldic products, whether as jewelry, plaques, etc.

The drawings in this book represent a large percentage of the coats of arms found for family names most commonly used in the United States.

The origin of this book goes back some twenty years [note: this is now over forty years]. Heraldica Imports is in the business of engraving coats of arms into fine jewelry. To this end, back in the 1970's, we published a predecessor to this book. We called it "Armorial booklet", and many thousands ordered their family crest rings from us based on the drawings found in that booklet.

However, with just under 4,000 drawings in it, it was of limited scope and we found ourselves constantly having to make new drawings for people interested in getting a crest ring.

The present book is the result of our desire to improve on the original booklet. The more than eleven thousand drawings found in this book represent thousands of hours of work and is probably the largest collection of coats of arms drawings published in this century.

This book may be viewed at the New York Public Library, as well as other libraries throughout the United States.

This book can be ordered through any bookstore, including Amazon.com, or Barnes & Noble. It may also be ordered directly from Heraldica Imports. The book retails for $145.00.

The ISBN is 0-9656408-0-9.

Below is a sample page of the book