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A short and easy introduction to heraldry , in two parts. Part I. The use of arms and armory, ... Part II. A dictionary of heraldry, ... Embellished with thirty-eight copperplates, ... The whole compiled from the most approved authorities. By Hugh Clark and Thomas Wormull.
Clark, HughDate: 1788- E-books
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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, Croisaides, Tombs 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 third 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.
Clark, HughDate: 1777- E-books
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A new dictionary of heraldry , explaining the terms us'd in that science, with their Etymology, and different Versions into Latin. Containing all the Rules of Blazon, with Reasons for the same. The Original Signification of Bearings. And a concise account of the most noted orders of knighthood that are, or have been; and of Honours and Dignities Ecclesiastical, Civil, or Military. Illustrated with 196 devices on copper The whole design'd to make that Science familiar. Revis'd and corrected, with a letter to the publisher, by Mr. James Coats.
Date: 1725- E-books
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A short and easy introduction to heraldry in which all the terms are displayed in a clear and alphabetical manner; With the Use and Dignity of Arms, the Manner of Tournaments, Croisaides: also the Rules of Blazon and Marshalling Coat-Armours. Likewise 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 Six Hundred Figures, collected from the most ancient and modern Authors, upon a new and regular Plan. By Hugh Clark and Thomas Wormull, Engravers.
Clark, HughDate: 1776- E-books
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The great theater of honour and nobility containing, I. The science of heraldry, with a Compleat Dictionary of all the Terms proper thereto. II. An historical and chronological abridgment of the settlements and revolutions of the Monarchies and Sovereignties of Europe, from the Downfall of the Roman Empire, till towards the End of the Tenth Century. III. The present state of the empire of Germany, with relation to the Emperor, King of the Romans, Electors, Princes of the Empire, Imperial Cities, Diets, &c. IV. The atchievements and blazo of the emperors, Kings, Princes, and Sovereign States of Christendom. Both in French and English. Illustrated and Adorned with about forty copper-plates, Curiously Engraved. By Mr. A. Boyer, Author of the Royal Dictionary, French and English.
Boyer, Abel 1667-1729.Date: 1754