A display of heraldry
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: A display of heraldry
Other titles: Display of heraldrie; Observations upon the laws and customs of nations as to precedency
Classmark: BC Case 43/GUI
Creator(s): Guillim, John (1565-1621)
Additional creator(s): Logan, John (Other); Mackenzie, Sir George (1636-1691) (Other)
Related people: Logan, John; Mackenzie, George
Publisher: Printed by T.W. for R. and J. Bonwicke and R. Wilkin, and J. Walthoe and T. Ward
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1724
Language: English
Size and medium: [5] leaves, 20, 460, [4], 275, [1], 58, 24, [22] p
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/289502
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991002718859705181
Description
Added t.p.: Analogia honorum, or a treatise of honour and nobility according to the laws and customs of England, collected out of the most authentick authors, both ancient and modern. In two parts.
Added t.p. title: Observations upon the laws and customs of nations as to precedency.
Index of surnames: last [22] pages.
Contents: Remainder of t.p. transcription: Illustrated with the arms, crests, supporters, and motto's [!] of the royal family, and nobility: the arms of the sees of the English bishops and several of the gentry together with the proper habits of the different degrees of the nobility of England, and the emblems of of the royal family, and nobility chief orders of Knighthood in Europe, also fairly engraven on copper plates. Also an exact list of the baronets, from their first creation to this present time, and most of their arms blazon'd. With an account of the customs, governments, and privileges of the city of London, the other cities of England, and shire-towns of each county, and their arms. Likewise a supplement of scarce tracts relating to the office of arms taken from authentick copies and a dictionary explaining the several terms used by heralds in English, Latin and French, with proper tables to the whole.
Additional description
Wanting added title-page. The coats of arms are hand-coloured