Author: Guillim, John.
Title: A DISPLAY OF HERALDRY. The sixth edition. Improv'd with large additions of many hundred coats of arms, under their respective Bearings, with good Authorities from the Ashmolean Library, Sir George Mackenzie, &c. With his tract of precedency, containing all his rules, observations, Arguments, and chief Instances. To which is added, A treatise of honour military and civil, According to the Laws and Customs of England. By Capt. John Logan. Illustrated with the arms, crests. Supporters, and Motto's of the royal family, and nobility: The Arms of the Sees of the English Bishops, and several of the Gentry. Together With the proper Habits of the different Degrees of the Nobility of England, and the Emblems of the chief Orders of Knighthood in Europe; all fairly engraven on Copper Plates. Also an exact list of the baronets, from their first Creation to this present Time; and most of their Arms Blazon'd. With an Account of the Customs, Government, and Privileges of the City of London ...
Description: London printed by T. W. for R. and J. Bonwicke and R. Wilkin, in St. Paul's Church-Yard. And J. Walthoe and Tho. Ward, in the Temple ..., 1724. 6th Edition. Folio. [10], [ii], 20, 460, [4], 65, [1], 65-215, [1], 221-275, [1], 58, 24, [22] p. Title page in red and black with double ruled border, 62 plates [only of 65] depicting numerous coats of arms and many portraits, decorative initial letters and head and tail pieces, numerous textual coats of arms. Bbb2 with closed split, several leaves restored, sporadic browning, occasional marginal pencil marks, later rebind in half morocco with marbled boards, minor wear and soiling, fore-edge to lower board bumped, gilt lettering and raised bands to sl. rubbed spine. ¶ Moule p.319; Lowndes II/956 ‘Best edition of a work still in general use, and the best of that kind that was ever published’. ESTC T140947 ‘Titlepage in red and black. Mackenzie's 'Observations upon the laws and customs of nations, as to precedency', 'The second part of honour civil' and 'A dictionary, explaining the several terms used by heralds' each have a divisional titlepage, separate register and pagination.’ ‘... In 1611 Guillim's Display of Heraldrie was published with a colophon dated 1610. It contained 283 folio pages and more than 500 woodcuts of shields in the text, illustrating the arms of named families and early seventeenth-century office-holders ... Guillim's Display of Heraldrie, of which there were further posthumous enlarged editions, was to remain the standard textbook on English heraldry until the second half of the eighteenth century, and it is still regularly used by working heralds in the twenty-first century ...’ ODNB.

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