The Elements of Heraldry Containing a Clear Definition and Concise Historical Account of that Ancient, Useful, and Entertaining Science; The Origin, Antiquity, and Divers Kinds of Coats-of-Arms, with their Essential and Integral Parts Considered Separately; The Several Sorts of Escutcheons, Tinctures, Charges and Ornaments Used for Coats-of-Arms; The Marks Whereby Bearers of the Same Coat-of-Arms are Distinguished from Each Other; Charges Formed of Ordinaries, Celestial Figures, Animals, Birds, Fishes, Vegetables, Artificial and Chimerical Figures; The Laws of Heraldry, Practical Directions for Marshalling Coats-of-Arms, and the Order of Precedency. Embellished with Several Fine Cuts, and Twenty-Four Copper-Plates, Containing Above Five Hundred Different Examples of Escutcheons, Arms, &c. And Interspersed with the Natural History, and Allegorical Signification of the Several Species of Birds, Beasts, Fishes, &c. Comprehended in This Treatise. To Which is Annexed, a Dictionary of the Technical Terms Made Use of in Heraldry. By Mark Anthony Porny, French-Master at Eton College. London: Printed for J. Newbery, MDCCLXV (1765).
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Provenance:
Ink ownership inscription reading "Lloyd."
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Contains twenty-three numbered plates.
Size: 128 x 204 mm (approx.)
Condition:
[frontis, t.p., 1ff., vii-xx, 199pp., 1pp., 40pp., (1)]
Full brown calf binding, rubbed and scuffed with some marks, lacking tooled label. Both boards attached, joints and hinges cracked, thus fragile, the front board more loose than the rear board. Shelf and edge wear. Page edges dulled. Ink and pencil inscriptions to the front pastedown. Stamp to the reverso of the frontispiece. Frontispiece detached. Text block extremely clean with light toning and occasional foxing. Edge toning to endpapers as commensurate with the full calf binding.
[OCLC 40401503].
