The institution, laws & ceremonies of the most noble Order of the Garter : work furnished with variety of matter, relating to honor and noblesse
Elias Ashmole's 1672 London treatise on the Order of the Garter, the English order of knighthood, printed by J. Macock for Nathanael Brooke for an audience of heraldry and chivalry readers. Its plates show engraved seals, rows of coats of arms, and ranks of robed figures in procession, offering a designer dense, orderly patterns of heraldic shields and costume silhouettes.
