A complete body of heraldry
Subtitle: containing an historical enquiry into the origins of armories and the rise and progress of heraldry, considered as a science ... the proper methods of blazoning and marshalling armorial bearings ... the arms, quarterings, crests, supporters, and mottos of all sovereign princes and states, as also the achievements of the peers ... of England, Scotland, and Ireland ... an historical catalogue of all the different orders of knighthood ... : Glover's Ordinary of arms, augmented and improved : an alphabet of arms, containing upwards of fifty thousand coats, with their crests, &c. and a copious glossary, explaining all the technical terms used in heraldry ... : illustrated with copper-plates
By: carefully compiled ... by Joseph Edmondson.
Contributors: Ayloffe, Joseph, Sir, 1709-1781.; Glover, Robert, 1544-1588.
Edition: [1st ed.]
Publisher: Printed for the author by T. Spilsbury, Snowhill
Published: 1780
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Subjects: Heraldry -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800.; Nobility -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800.; Great Britain -- Genealogy -- Early works to 1800.
Notes: Microfilm. Dallas, TX : RIS Microfilm Services, [1992] 1 microfilm reel : negative ; 16 mm.
Vol. 1 was partly written by Sir Joseph Ayloffe. Cf. Moule's Bibliotheca heraldica Magnæ Britanniæ, and Lowndes' The bibliographer's manual of English literature.
Includes indexes.