With the use and dignity of Arms, the manner of tournaments, croisades, tomes and monuments: also the rules of blazon and marshalling coat-armours. With a concise method of sketching and blazoning arms, now in practice among heralds, herald painters and engravers. Likewise achievements or hatchments so familiarly explained, that a person may know, at the first view, what branch of the family is deceased; with a great number of elegant copper-plates, containing above eight hundred examples, collected from the most antient and modern authors, upon a new and regular plan / By Hugh Clark and Thomas Wormull, engravers. . by the addition of two hundred examples, neatly engraved; and an appendix, containing the privileges of the gentry and yeomen of England, extracted from the last edition of Guillim's Display of heraldry. And an account of the garter, bath, thistle, and all the different orders of Europe. Sm. 8vo. [4], 107, [1] p., 24 engraved plates. Bound in the original marbled card boards [lightly restored] uncut. FINE COPY. Seller Inventory # 913

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Title: A Short and Easy Introduction to Heraldry : ...

Publisher: printed for G. Kearsly, at No. 46, near Serjeant's Inn, Fleet-Street

Publication Date: 1779

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Fine

Edition: 1st Edition

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