Living and Working in Seventeenth-Century England : An Encyclopedia of Drawings and Descriptions from Randle Holme's Original Manuscripts for "the Academy of Armory" (1688)

Randle Holme, an antiquary living in 17th-century England, conceived the idea of publishing a fully illustrated manual of heraldry.

Over the years the idea became a vast encyclopedic record of everyday life and work, noted especially for the detailed depictions of early machinery.