Shelfmark
Cl.2.01 - Cl.2.02
Author
Title
A complete body of heraldry: containing, an historical enquiry into the origin of armories, and the rise and progress of heraldry ... The proper methods of blazoning and marshalling armorial bearings ... The arms, quarterings, crests, supporters, and mottos, of all sovereign princes ... An historical catalogue of all the different orders of knighthood ... The arms of the counties, cities ... in England and Wales; and of the abbies ... The arms of archiepiscopal and episcopal sees ... A discourse on the origin, use, and abuse, of funeral trophies. Glover's Ordinary of arms, augmented and improved; an alphabet of arms ... and a copious glossary ... In two volumes. Illustrated with copper-plates. Carefully compiled ... by Joseph Edmondson ...
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : Printed, for the author, by T. Spilsbury; and sold by J. Dodsley; T. Payne and Son; J. Rosbon; J. Walter; J. Ridley; and R. Faulder, 1780.
Physical description
2v., plates ; Fo.
Note
Previously Cl.3.13-14.
Note
Variant (one of two from 1780) including "Further additions and emendations" at end of Vol. II.
Note
List of subscribers.
Note
Folded paper enclosing four armorial bookplates (of Franz Falk, of Karl Emich, Graf zu Leiningen-Westerburg (1856-1906), and of Hefner-Alteneck (?Jakob Heinrich von, 1811-1903) (two)).
Note
Vol. I: loose coat of arms, painted on vellum, containing many doves, and in section on birds in heraldry.
Provenance
Bookplate of Eton College.
Binding
18th century gold-tooled calf.
Subject
Heraldry Early works to 1800.
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B14399