A complete body of heraldry
Subtitle: containing, an historical enquiry into the origin 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 atchievements of the peers, peeresses, and baronets, 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 ...
By: illustrated with copper plates ; carefully compiled, from the best and most undoubted authorities by Joseph Edmondson.
Contributors: Glover, Robert, 1544-1588.; Ayloffe, Joseph, Sir, 1709-1781.; Spilsbury, Thomas.; Dodsley, James, 1724-1797.; Robson, James, 1733-1806.; Walter, John, d. 1803.; Ridley, John, d. 1782.; Faulder, Robert, 1747 or 8-1815.; T. Payne and Son.
Edition: [Large paper edition]
Publisher: Printed, for the author, by T. Spilsbury ... and sold by J. Dodsley ... T. Payne and Son ... J. Robson ... J. Walter ... J. Ridley ... and R. Faulder
Published: 1780
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 24
Subjects: Heraldry.; Heraldry -- Great Britain.
Notes: The frontispiece is a portrait of the author engraved by F. Bartolozzi in 1777.

Vol. 1 was partly written by Sir Joseph Ayloffe, Bart. C.f.Moule's Bibliotheca heraldica and Lowndes' Bibliographer's manual of English literature.

Moule's Bibliotheca heraldica, p. 430-438.