art of heraldry
Subtitle: containing I. The original and universality of arms and ensigns ...  II. Of diverse kinds of escotcheons, and of the bearing or using the ordinaries in coat armour.  III. Of coat armour form'd of artificial things ...  IV. Of charges in coat armour form'd of coelestials ... of vegetables ... of parts of man's body ... of animals ...  V. Of charges from fowls and birds ...  VI.  Of charges of fishes ...  VII. Of charges from monstrous animals ...  : embellish'd with forty copper plates, containing above 900 coats of arms of the nobility and gentry of Great Britain and Ireland ... : together with occasional explications of all the terms used in the science of heraldry, and peculiar thereto : to which is prefix'd, an alphabetical list of the names of the families whose coats are delineated in the book, with references to the pages where they are to be found. --
Contributors: Vicars, Arthur E., Sir (bookplate)
Publisher: Printed for J. Osborn ...; and sold by A. Bettesworth ...
Published: 1730
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 222
Subjects: Heraldry.; Heraldry -- Great Britain
Work titles: Essay to heraldry
Notes: Anonymous.  By Richard Blome.  Cf. Brit. Mus. cat.

First published in 1684 with title: An essay to heraldry.

Title page slightly mutilated; p. 219-222 wanting.

With the bookplate of Sir Arthur E. Vicars.