The section on heraldry contains many coats-of-arms printed in six colours (including black ink and the white of the page), the first colour printing in England. During the 16th century the work was very popular, and was reprinted many times. It was edited by Gervase Markham in 1595 as The Gentleman's Academic.

Scholarship on the sources of the book indicates that little in it was original. It is expressly stated at the end of the Blasynge of Armys that