Historical Portrait

H. P. Lovecraft’s coat of arms & bookplate

1927·Source: internet_archive·View original ↗·Public Domain

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H.P. Lovecraft's personal heraldic coat of arms drawn in 1927, featuring quartered family blazons including Lovecraft, Phillips, and Allgood lineages. Public domain historical document.

About this photograph

Howard Phillips Lovecraft drew this personal heraldic coat of arms in September 1927. The design quarters family blazons from the Lovecraft, Phillips, and Allgood lineages.

The circumstances behind the coat of arms' creation and what use Lovecraft made of it as a bookplate are not documented in the available records. Whether he commissioned the design, based it on genealogical research, or adopted it for practical or decorative purposes remains unclear.

Compiled from the catalogue record and reference notes on the formats and events involved. The archive record above is the primary source.

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Credit: Internet Archive

Rights: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

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