A complete body of heraldry containing an historical enquiry into the origins of armories and the rise and progress of heraldry, considered as a science ... the proper methods of blazoning and marshalling armorial bearings ... the arms, quarterings
A complete body of heraldry containing an historical enquiry into the origins of armories and the rise and progress of heraldry, considered as a science ... the proper methods of blazoning and marshalling armorial bearings ... the arms, quarterings...
Printed for the author by T. Spilsbury and sold by J. Dodsley and T....
Hardcover
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Printed for the author by T. Spilsbury and sold by J. Dodsley and T....
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English
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17738895414
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1st edn. Folio (17 x 10¾ ins). Contemporary full calf, gilt ruled raised-ribbed spine with gilt lettered label, board edges gilt tooled (some wear to outer joints but casing still firm; boards lightly discoloured with scratches and abrasions and wear at edges and corners). Pp. [viii] + 200 + unpaginated + 109 (lacks pp. 25-38 and 81-84), thereafter unpaginated, illus with engraved frontispiece, 23 full page plates and vignettes in text (endpapers lightly spotted, and tanned at edges; offsetting from frontis on title; previous owner's armorial bookplate on front paste-down; no inscriptions).