Visitation of England and Wales

Visitation of England and Wales is a 33-volume book series of pedigree charts and family trees of British families. The editors were Joseph Jackson Howard, the Maltravers Herald of Arms Extraordinary, who died in 1902, and Frederick Arthur Crisp who continued the series after his death, until 1921. The volumes were illustrated with "all the arms on record at the Heralds' College, as well as reproductions of autographs, seals, book-plates and portraits"; with the pedigrees "beginning with the grandparents of the representative of the family".^[1] Another review commented on "place and date of each birth, marriage and death, and often details of a career only to be found in specially-written biographies".^[2] Crisp published these and other works of interest to genealogists through Grove Park Press in London, his private press.^[3]