Item #140665 A COMPLETE BODY OF HERALDRY Containing an Historical Enquiry Into the Origins of Armories and the Rise and Progress of Heraldry... Glover's Ordinary of Arms Augmented and Improved... An Alphabet of Arms... And a Copious Glossary... in Two Volumes. EDMONDSON Joseph.
A COMPLETE BODY OF HERALDRY Containing an Historical Enquiry Into the Origins of Armories and the Rise and Progress of Heraldry... Glover's Ordinary of Arms Augmented and Improved... An Alphabet of Arms... And a Copious Glossary... in Two Volumes.
A COMPLETE BODY OF HERALDRY Containing an Historical Enquiry Into the Origins of Armories and the Rise and Progress of Heraldry... Glover's Ordinary of Arms Augmented and Improved... An Alphabet of Arms... And a Copious Glossary... in Two Volumes.

A COMPLETE BODY OF HERALDRY Containing an Historical Enquiry Into the Origins of Armories and the Rise and Progress of Heraldry... Glover's Ordinary of Arms Augmented and Improved... An Alphabet of Arms... And a Copious Glossary... in Two Volumes.

Printed for the author by T. Spilsbury and sold by J. Dodsley and T. Payne and Son et al, 1780. Item #140665

1st edn. Folio (17 x 10¾ ins). Contemporary full calf, gilt ruled raised-ribbed spine with gilt lettered label, board edges gilt tooled (some wear to outer joints but casing still firm; boards lightly discoloured with scratches and abrasions and wear at edges and corners). Pp. [viii] + 200 + unpaginated + 109 (lacks pp. 25-38 and 81-84), thereafter unpaginated, illus with engraved frontispiece, 23 full page plates and vignettes in text (endpapers lightly spotted, and tanned at edges; offsetting from frontis on title; previous owner's armorial bookplate on front paste-down; no inscriptions).

Price: £1,000.00

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