A Complete Guide to Heraldry

The work begins with a historical account of armory and proceeds into a systematic, illustrated manual describing the component parts of an achievement, rules of blazon, tinctures and fields, ordinaries, and the principal charges and motifs—human figures, beasts, monsters, birds, fish, plants, and inanimate emblems. Later chapters treat helmets, crests, coronets, mantling, supporters, badges, flags, marshalling, marks of cadency and bastardy, ecclesiastical and sovereign arms, augmentations, and official insignia, supplying nearly eight hundred designs and color plates to support practical identification and use.