An Introduction to Heraldry. CLARK (Hugh).

An Introduction to Heraldry. Containing the Origin and Use of Arms; Rules for Blazoning and Marshalling Coat Armours; The English and Scottish Regalia; A Dictionary of Heraldry, with its Terms in English, French, and Latin; Orders of Knighthood Illustrated and Explained; Degrees of the Nobility; Gentry, etc. Tables of Precedency; and A Dictionary of Mottoes: The Whole Forming a Complete Manual of Rank and Nobility. Embellished with Forty-Eight Engravings, Illustrative of Upwards of One Thousand Examples, Including the Arms of Nearly Five Hundred Different Families.

With black and white engraved frontispiece, and 47 engraved plates.

Eleventh edition, considerably enlarged and improved. 12mo. [164 x 107 x 27 mm]. [1]f, xii, 324 pp, [1]f. Bound in half green calf with marbled paper sides, blind roll, smooth spine blocked in gilt with a red leather label, plain endleaves, red sprinkled edges. (Showing some signs of wear).

London: Henry Washbourn, Salisbury Square: Cadell and Co. Edinburgh, 1829

Without plate no.9 of plates No.1 to 22 placed between pp.82-83. Lightly foxed, and engraved plates are a little offset. With occasional neat ink annotations and a few leaves with staining to the top margin. A very good copy.

In this edition, 'many improvements and additions have been made; among which will be found engravings of the crown as worn by his present Majesty at his coronation, the Scottish regalia, the several orders of knighthood, &c.' (p.vi).

Stock no. ebc9244