Shelfmark
Gi.5.17
Author
Title
The grammar of heraldry. Containing I. Rules of Blazoning, Cautions and Observations. II. Practical Directions for Marshalling; with Discourses on the several Parts (or Ornaments) of an Atchievement. III. A Large Collection of Arms, by way of Example, Alphabetically digested. With two appendices; and a list of subscribers; to most of them their arms and titles. The whole adorn'd with proper cuts. By Samuel Kent of London, Printer..
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : Printed by R. Tookey in Thread-needle-street, behind the Royal Exchange, for J. Pemberton, at the Buck and Sun against St. Dunstan's Church, Fleetstreet. Sold at the places above mention'd, and by most booksellers in Great-Britain., [1720?]
Physical description
xliv, [180] p. : ill., coats of arms ; 18 cm. (8vo)
Note
A reissue of the first edition of 1716 with a different titlepage, and the last two leaves of the list of subscribers corrected and reset. Without the preliminary leaf of advertisement.
Note
Price from imprint: Price Six Shillings.
Note
P.xxxiv misnumbered xxxvi.
Citation/references note
ESTC, T121425
Provenance
Ex dono label of Joseph Frederick Burrell, dated 1983, on front pastedown.
Binding
18th-century panelled and speckled calfskin over pasteboards. Covers decorated with double blind fillets to form a border and panels with tools at the corners; gilt roll on board edges (faded). Spine rebacked with four raised bands, decorated with blind fillets. Textblock trimmed and sprinkled red. Endpapers of undecorated paper; one flyleaf at the upper end of the textblock, none at the lower end.
Subject
Heraldry Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Pemberton, John, ? - 1739 bookseller.
Added entry--name
Burrell, Joseph Frederick, 1909 - 1983 former owner.
Added entry--place
England London.
Language code
eng
Identifier
B51197