Excerpt from Scottish Armorial SealsOu comparing the sizes there given with actual impressions of the seals, they are frequently found to be slightly understated, the result, no doubt, of the measurements being taken from casts made from matrices, the material used for which has a tendency to shrink.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.