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A short and easy introduction to heraldry In which all the most useful Terms are displayed in a clear and alphabetical Manner; With the Use and Dignity of Arms, the Manner of Tournaments, Croisades, Tomes and Monuments: also the Rules of Blazon and Marshalling Coat-Armours. With a concise Method of Sketching and Blazoning Arms, now in Practice among Heralds, Herald Painters and Engravers. Likewise Achievements or Hatchments so familiarly explained, that a person may know, at the first view, what branch of the family is deceased; with a great number of elegant copper-plates, containing above eight hundred examples, collected from the most antient and modern authors, upon a new and regular plan. By Hugh Clark and Thomas Wormull, engravers. The fourth edition, much enlarged, by the addition of two hundred examples, neatly engraved; and an appendix, Containing the Privileges of the Gentry and Yeomen of England, extracted from the last Edition of Guillim's Display of Heraldry. And an Account of the Garter, Bath, Thistle, and all the different Orders of Europe.

Title
A short and easy introduction to heraldry [electronic resource] : In which all the most useful Terms are displayed in a clear and alphabetical Manner; With the Use and Dignity of Arms, the Manner of Tournaments, Croisades, Tomes and Monuments: also the Rules of Blazon and Marshalling Coat-Armours. With a concise Method of Sketching and Blazoning Arms, now in Practice among Heralds, Herald Painters and Engravers. Likewise Achievements or Hatchments so familiarly explained, that a person may know, at the first view, what branch of the family is deceased; with a great number of elegant copper-plates, containing above eight hundred examples, collected from the most antient and modern authors, upon a new and regular plan. By Hugh Clark and Thomas Wormull, engravers. The fourth edition, much enlarged, by the addition of two hundred examples, neatly engraved; and an appendix, Containing the Privileges of the Gentry and Yeomen of England, extracted from the last Edition of Guillim's Display of Heraldry. And an Account of the Garter, Bath, Thistle, and all the different Orders of Europe.
Author
Clark, Hugh.
Publication
London : printed for G. Kearsly, at No. 46, near Serjeant's Inn, Fleet-Street, 1779.

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Additional Authors
Wormull, Thomas.
Description
[4],107,[1]p.,24plates; 8⁰.
Subject
Heraldry
Note
  • With a final leaf of advertisements.
  • Reproduction of original from British Library.
Indexed In (note)
  • English Short Title Catalog
Reproduction (note)
  • Electronic reproduction.
OCLC
  • 642318909
  • ECCO1-T118934
Author
Clark, Hugh.
Title
A short and easy introduction to heraldry [electronic resource] : In which all the most useful Terms are displayed in a clear and alphabetical Manner; With the Use and Dignity of Arms, the Manner of Tournaments, Croisades, Tomes and Monuments: also the Rules of Blazon and Marshalling Coat-Armours. With a concise Method of Sketching and Blazoning Arms, now in Practice among Heralds, Herald Painters and Engravers. Likewise Achievements or Hatchments so familiarly explained, that a person may know, at the first view, what branch of the family is deceased; with a great number of elegant copper-plates, containing above eight hundred examples, collected from the most antient and modern authors, upon a new and regular plan. By Hugh Clark and Thomas Wormull, engravers. The fourth edition, much enlarged, by the addition of two hundred examples, neatly engraved; and an appendix, Containing the Privileges of the Gentry and Yeomen of England, extracted from the last Edition of Guillim's Display of Heraldry. And an Account of the Garter, Bath, Thistle, and all the different Orders of Europe.
Imprint
London : printed for G. Kearsly, at No. 46, near Serjeant's Inn, Fleet-Street, 1779.
Reproduction
Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.
Indexed In:
English Short Title Catalog, T118934.
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Full text online available from home with a valid library card and onsite at NYPL
Place of Publication
Great Britain England London.
Added Author
Wormull, Thomas. Author
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