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London: printed for J.Dodsley in Pall-Mall, 1785.Victorian half leather, gilt title and date on spine.Good /No Jacket.Owner's signature on half title [J.C.F.Morson], Morson's engraved heraldic bookplate, and smaller square bookplate with bird holding flaming sword (& wearing jester's cap) inside front cover, accompanied by finely written note in pencil: 'Morson, Master at Charterhouse'.Pp.i-xxiv [4 leaves, 3 printed A Shields, B Ordinaries, C Crowns Coronets & Badges], 2nd title ""Index to all the arms of the Peers and Peeresses of England, Scotland, and Ireland"" + index [8 pp], ""The Present peerage of England 1784"" 1-102, additional pages 103* to 108*, 107-176 pp; additional pages 177* - 179*; 38 engraved plates, partly hand-coloured; 3rd title ""The Present Peerage of Scotland 1784"", [177]-256 pp, 16 engraved plates, partly hand-coloured; 4th title ""The Present Peerage of Ireland 1784"", 257-372 pp.+ Index to the English [-Scotch, -Irish] Peerage [9 pp]; ""An Alphabetical Peerage Directory in Four Parts"", 375-424 pp.Tips of spine frayed; leaf with plates 15 & 16 with small tear at base, final page of text soiled & stained, remainder of text generally clean but with a few sm.stains.The rebinding has caused generally minor truncation of text headings to the colour plates, occasionally (e.g.plate 34) removing almost the entire heading except for descenders, more normally affecting only the upper half (or less) of the caption.Plates drawn by Darling, engraved by Newport.A valuable reference work by the Mowbray-Herald Extraordinary.Preface claims ""No labour nor expence, however, has been spared on the part of the Publisher, to render it, as nearly as the nature of it will permit, a correct and finished Performance; so far especially as it relates to the living Connexions of the present Families"".The brief Introduction to Heraldry (pp.v-xv] is informative. In English.

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