Author: KENT (Samuel):
Title: The Grammar of Heraldry: Or, Gentleman's Vade Mecum, &c. Containing I. Rules of Blazoning, Cautions and Observations. II. Practical Directions for Marshalling; with Discourses on the several Parts (or Ornaments) of an Atchievement. III. A Large Collection of Arms, by way of Example, Alphabetically digested. With Two Appendices; And a List of the Subscribers; to most of them their Arms and Titles. The whole adorn'd with proper Cuts. The Second Edition.
Description: London: Printed for J. Pemberton..., 1718. 8vo (in 4s), 180 x 107 mms., pp. [v] vi - xliv, [196], with the list of subscribers and their arms at the end, many of the earlier plates neatly coloured by hand, contemporary panelled calf, brown morocco label; lacks initial adverts leaf, binding scuffed and worn but intact. Kent's work was first published in 1716, and a quarto edition, issued in parts, in 1716 - 1717, and this second edition seems to have added material. ESTC locates copies of this edition in BL, NLS, Suffok Record Office, The National Trust; McGill, Newberry.

Keywords: heraldry grammar prose


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