Dallaway, James. - INQUIRIES INTO THE ORIGIN AND PROGRESS OF THE SCIENCE OF HERALDRY IN ENGLAND. With Explanatory Observations on Armorial Designs.

Gloucester printed by R. Raikes, for T. Cadell, London, 1793. 1st Edition. 4to. [4],xiii,[1],424,[4],cxiip. Engraved Title page with vignette, engraved ded. leaf, numerous vignettes, 2 pedigrees on 1 fold out, 26 plates including 7 hand cold. and 1 sepia, engraved fly t.p. to ‘ Observations ..’ Prelims. lightly browned, light age toning, marbled e.ps., contemporary gilt rule edged calf with marbled boards, some minor wear to boards, dec. gilt raised bands with gilt lettered title label to sl. rubbed spine, extemities sl. rubbed, t.e.g. ¶ Ex-libris Mary Sophia Johnston (1875-1955), Geologist and Photographer who left a legacy of £1,000 to the Palaeontographical Society. During her lifetime she donated her collections of invertebrate fauna to the British Museum of Natural History (now the Natural History Museum), including specimens of foraminfera (single-celled organisms with an internal shell found abundantly as fossils) and bryzoa (microscopic aquatic invertebrates that live in colonies). Her collection of additional fossils followed after her death. ESTC T67773 ‘The titlepage is engraved.’ James Dallaway (1763–1834), antiquary. The appendix includes a ‘Life of Sir William Dugdale’, ‘Editions of books published in England on the Science of Heraldry’, ‘A genuine copy of the Book of St. Albans’, etc.

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