[Northkeep] Hey Etienne!

[Marc Carlson]

Write me, I have these pdfs just gathering dust :)

In case any of the rest of you history/herald types are interested, I have a 
copy of:  Holme, Randle. The Academy of Armory, or, a Storehouse of Armory 
and Blazon Containing the Several Variety of Created Beings, and How Born in 
Coats of Arms, Both Foreign and Domestick : With the Instruments Used in All 
Trades and Sciences, Together with Their Terms of Art: Also the Etymologies, 
Definitions, and Historical Observations on the Same, Explicated and 
Explained According to Our Modern Language : Very Usefel [Sic] for All 
Gentlemen, Scholars, Divines, and All Such as Desire Any Knowledge in Arts 
and Sciences. Chester: Printed for the author, 1688.  {books 1-3, but not 
the final volumes, which wasn't published until 1906 or so} as a series of 
pdfs, and will be more than happy to share.

If you aren't sure you would be interested, the shoemaking sections have 
been extracted and are on display at: 
http://www.personal.utulsa.edu/~marc-carlson/histshoe/holme/holmeshoe.htm

He does this on -everything- from beer making to wood working to ceremonial 
details all disquised as an armorial.  Now, I hear some of you saying, but 
Diarmaid, that's 1688 - isnt that out of Period.  Yes, the book is post 
period, but for people doing late medieval and Elizabethan stuff, a number 
of his sources are still well in Period.

While these images have been made available by the Huntington library (their 
microfilm) and them scanned in by Early English Books Online, I'm pretty 
sure an excellent case can be made that they really can't claim much of a 
copyright violation for making it available for educational purposes here to 
any of you all who might be interested.  (OTOH it's a violation of TUs 
licencing agreements with EEBO, but that's another issue altogether - so 
this is for a limited time only).

M/D

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