Heraldic cadency
Subtitle: the development of differencing of coats of arms for kinsmen and other purposes. Foreword by the Duke of Salandra and Serracapriola
By: Lt.-Colonel Robert Gayre of Gayre and Nigg ; foreword by the Duke of Salandra and Serracapriola
Publisher: Faber and Faber Limited; Faber and Faber
Published: 1961
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 159
Subjects: Heraldry
Notes: Includes bibliographical references
Table of contents: title: Foreword / Giovanni Maresca di Serracapriola; title: Introduction; title: Instructions for colouring figures; title: The origin of the need for differentiation in arms; title: Cadet differencing by changes of tinctures; title: Cadet differencing by geratting; title: Differencing by the addition of an ordinary; title: Cadet differencing by changing of charges; title: Differencing by the addition of the label or file; title: Differencing by canton or quarter; title: Differencing by bordure; title: The bend, bendlet, baston and bar in cadet differencing; title: The inescutcheon; title: Increase and decrease of charges for cadency; title: Differencing for cadency per chevron and by composing coats; title: Cadency differencing by quartering; title: Cadency differencing by the addition of single or few charges; title: Differencing by symbols of office; title: Change of form of the lines of ordinaries, change of minor charges and addition of extraneous differences in cadency; title: Composed arms for cadency differencing; title: Feudal differencing; title: Differencing and the crest; title: Differences employed in early times for bastardy; title: The beginnings of systematization in cadency; title: Post-mediaeval differencing; title: A comparison of major and minor brisure cadency in current practice; title: Differencing today is still inherent in British as well as other systems of heraldry; title: Modern differencing for illegitimate cadency