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

Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Clark, Hugh
Other Authors:	Wormull, Thomas
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London printed for G. Kearsly, at No. 46, near Serjeant's Inn, Fleet-Street 1779, 1779
Subjects:	Heraldry
Online Access:	http://nl.sub.uni-goettingen.de/id/0565100200?orig...
Collection:	Eighteenth Century Collections Online / ECCO - Collection details see MPG.ReNa