A Hand-book of Mottoes Borne by the Nobility, Gentry, Cities, Public Companies, Etc.

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Ancestry.com. A Hand-book of Mottoes Borne by the Nobility, Gentry, Cities, Public Companies, Etc. [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006.
Original data: Elvin, Charles Norton. A Hand-book of Mottoes Borne by the Nobility, Gentry, Cities, Public Companies, Etc. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1990.

About A Hand-book of Mottoes Borne by the Nobility, Gentry, Cities, Public Companies, Etc.

This is the standard work on heraldic mottoes, those words or sentences associated with coats of arms. About 3,500 mottoes are listed here with translations, along with a 4,000-name index compiled especially for this printing.