KENT (Samuel):

The Grammar of Heraldry: Or, Gentleman's Vade Mecum, &c. Containing I. Rules of Blazoning, Cautions and Observations. II. Practical Directions for Marshalling; with Discourses on the several Parts (or Ornaments) of an Atchievement. III. A Large Collection of Arms, by way of Example, Alphabetically digested. With Two Appendices; And a List of the Subscribers; to most of them their Arms and Titles. The whole adorn'd with proper Cuts. The Second Edition.

London: Printed for J. Pemberton..., 1718. 8vo (in 4s), 180 x 107 mms., pp. [v] vi - xliv, [196], with the list of subscribers and their arms at the end, many of the earlier plates neatly coloured by hand, contemporary panelled calf, brown morocco label; lacks initial adverts leaf, binding scuffed and worn but intact. Kent's work was first published in 1716, and a quarto edition, issued in parts, in 1716 - 1717, and this second edition seems to have added material. ESTC locates copies of this edition in BL, NLS, Suffok Record Office, The National Trust; McGill, Newberry.

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Book number: 9247

Catalogue: Heraldry

Keywords: heraldry grammar prose

PHILIPOT (Thomas):

A Brief Historical discourse of the Original and Growth of Heraldry, Demonstrating upon what rational Foundations, that Noble and Heroick Science is established.

London, Printed by E. Tyler and R. Holt, and ar to be sold Tho. Passinger..., 1672. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. Small 8vo, 164 x 104 mms., pp. [viii], 143 [144 blank], later (probably 20th century) full calf, paper label on spine, new end-papers; small pink stain on title-page but a very good copy. Thomas Philipot (d. 1782) was the elder son of John Philipot (c. 1589 - 1645), the Somerset Herald. Thomas inherited part of the large collection of heraldic material that his father had accumulated at his death, and it is possible, even likely, that this is partly if not entirely the work of his father. Thomas published under his own name in 1659 his father's treatise, Villare Cantianum, or, Kent Surveyed and Illustrated. A reviewer in volume 62 of The Gentleman's Magazine (1792) said of the work that "It seems one of those foolish books which attempts to discover the Art of Heraldry in all the symbols and hieorglyphicks of the antient nations"; later, Lowdnes described it as a "pedantic little work."

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Book number: 7441

Catalogue: Heraldry

Keywords: heraldry history prose