Hattyuffy Dezső - A hazai vármegyék és városok czímerei BK24-176259

This historical book is an important source on Hungarian heraldry, focusing on how the right to use seals and coats of arms developed for towns and counties in the centuries after the extinction of the Árpád dynasty. The author, Dezső Hattyuffy, explains in detail that towns already used seals in the 13th century and coats of arms from the 14th century onward, partly by royal grant and partly by their own choice. Counties, by contrast, began to use seals and arms only sporadically in the 15th century and regularly from the 16th century, despite playing an equally or often more significant public role.

The 88-page softcover edition was published by Nemzeti Örökség Kiadó. It offers valuable, source-based reading for anyone interested in Hungarian history and heraldry.