A short and easy introduction to heraldry : In which all the most useful Terms are displayed in a clear and alphabetical Manner; 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. The fourth edition, much enlarged, 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.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Clark, Hugh.

Wormull, Thomas, author.

Series:

Eighteenth century collections online. Part 1.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Heraldry.

Physical Description:

4 unnumbered pages,107 pages, 1 unnumbered page,24plates ; 8⁰

Place of Publication:

London : printed for G. Kearsly, at No. 46, near Serjeant's Inn, Fleet-Street, 1779.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

Notes:

With a final leaf of advertisements.

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements. s2009 miunns

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T118934.

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.