Free Heraldy Books on Kindle

 
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05 May 2011 12:46
 

I was looking around on Amazon and saw that there are two free heraldry books that are available for a Kindle.  They are "The Handbook of English Heraldry" by Charles Boutell and "The Manual of Heraldry; Fifth Edition" by Anonymous.  I downloaded both and they both seem to be great resources for beginners.  They give the history behind heraldry, what different charges mean, descriptions of everything, the rules, etc.

"Heraldy, History and Popular" by Charles Boutell is also available for $.99.

 

The only downside to all of these is that the drawings are all in black and white so it may be a little difficult when trying to explain the tincture rule or something of that nature.  But otherwise, these three books are great reference for almost no money at all.

 
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05 May 2011 13:36
 

Great catch! Do you have links to them?

 
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05 May 2011 13:49
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05 May 2011 17:48
 

Well… I was at work and shouldn’t have been poking around amazon.com, much less the forums here. Thank you for the links.

 
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05 May 2011 23:30
 

Anything free is worth saving up for wink

 
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06 May 2011 03:38
 

you can also find a look of free heraldry books in pdf format at www.archive.org or at google books, the ones mentioned above are probably among them.