| 1. | ![[Bookplate for Charles A. Dashwood]](/cgi-bin/thumbnail.exe?CISOROOT=/bookplate&CISOPTR=474 "[Bookplate for Charles A. Dashwood]") | [Bookplate for Charles A. Dashwood] | This heraldic bookplate consists of a tilted escutcheon, argent (silver), a fess, gules (red), the fess charged with three griffin heads, erased (a term which describes the cutted edge of an animal's head) ; two bars above and below the fess, also gules. Steel helmet, positioned three-quartered faced, closed (denotes an esquire rank). The crest above the helmet is a griffin head, again erased. A banner is positioned at the lower part of escutcheon with Latin motto. Surrounding the escutcheon is elaborate mantling. |
