Segar English Genealogy Antique Engraving Baroness Botetourt

Elizabeth Berkley, Baroness Botetourt
11 ¼ by 18 ¼ inches
SGR40 $295

We are very pleased to offer prints from Sir William Segar’s 6 volume authoritative genealogical work, Baronagium Genealogicum: or the Pedigrees of the English, published in London in 1764. It is truly an astonishing work, with 6 title pages, 6 dedications, 298 coats-of-arms (3 double-page) and 383 family trees (102 double-paged).

The work is of an unparalleled magnificence, large folio on superbly watermarked chain lined paper remarkably free of foxing or other blemishes. Each print has been colored according to heraldic specifications by a superbly skilled English colorist.

The condition of the work is extremely fine, the hand coloring superb. It is a very scarce work, at over 260 years old & truly the pinnacle of genealogy & a rare value indeed. There is no text, but a copy of the title page is included.