Arms of the Popes

Papal Heraldry by Donald Lindsay Galbreath, revised by Geoffrey Briggs (Heraldry Today £6.50) THE mysteries of heraldry, and particularly papal heraldry, can seldom have been more easily and concisely explained than -in Donald Galbreath's great classic. It is a lribute to his scholarship that pis 1930 book is still the iefinitive work in the field largely unquestioned. despite .he passing of 40 years.
' This new edition makes no changes or alterations to the text, but provides instead copious appendices and addenda, many of which are indeed the author's annotations
to the original. G.L.