A complete body of heraldry: : containing, an historical enquiry into the origin of armories, ... A discourse on the origin, use, and abuse, of funeral trophies. Glover's Ordinary of arms, augmented and improved; an alphabet of arms, ... And a copious glossary, ... In two volumes. ... / Carefully compiled ... by Joseph Edmondson, ...
Joseph Edmondson (d.1786)
Category
Books
Date
1780
Materials
Book with half calf binding.
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3025903
Summary
Bibliographic description
2 v., plates : port. ; fol. Without "Further additions and emendations" in vol. 2. Booksellers' pencil notes and prices on front free endpaper verso in vol. 1: "1780 2 vols 2-10-0" and (in a different hand): "Heraldry 2 vols £3.15.0". Bookseller's pencil code at foot of front free endpaper verso in vol. 1. Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (large variant), signed Badeley 1930: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)] in both vols. Nineteenth?-century manuscript inscription on front free endpaper verso in vol. 2: "Francis Lambert". Binding: Nineteenth-century half calf; marbled paper over boards; recessed cords; five false bands; spines lettered direct (gilt tooled): 'Edmondson's Heraldry Vol. I[-II].'; rebacked (original spines retained); marbled endpapers.
Makers and roles
Joseph Edmondson (d.1786), author