The Elements of Heraldry Containing a Clear Definition and Concise Historical Acccount of That Ancient Useful and Entertaining Science. To Which is Annexed a Dictionary of the Technical Terms Made Use of in Heraldry

xx + 199 pages + 38 pages (unpaginated) of dictionary of terms to rear. Brown leather binding, flaky surface to cross-banded leather spine which has 2 narrow vertical fissures. Both boards are OFF/detached, flyleaf missing, edges of boards have wear with rubbing particularly to corners, 1.5cm losses to spine-ends, creased half-title page stuck to inner front board with very old repair tape and inscribed 'John Matthews Tynemouth' in handwriting of the approximate period. Very old repair tape to free rear end-paper/last page, holding both to rear board. Frontispiece is FREE/detached, 3 pages (6 sides) of dictionary are FREE/detached . A little darkening to title-page & a recent owner has written date in red ink to bottom of page below Roman numerals. Detached pages have slight edge-staining to margins in a couple of places. Text block has a wave to pages, a few marks with a little marginal darkening to a few page-tops. Reasonably clean for age. All b/w plates are present (24) as called for. Needs repair.…