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 Ecclesiasitical, Civil or Military. The whole design’d to make that Science familiar. Aaron Ward ... 1747.
Revised and Corrected with a Recommendatory Epistle. [xiv] + 352pp. + [ii] adverts. Historiated initial letters and vignette chapter headings, 7 folding plates. Some light browning, pp.133-40 shaved along tail, with the armorial bookplate of Harry Percy Boord and the name plate of Mary Ethel Margaret Copeman, rebound in modern half calf with marbled boards, gilt rule edged raised bands with gilt lettered title label and Author’s name and date in gilt to spine. ESTC T134650. ‘A reissue of the 1725 edition with a new titlepage and initial advertisement leaf.’
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