A SHORT AND EASY INTRODUCTION TO HERALDRY, IN TWO PARTS...

London: Printed for G. Kearsley, 1788. viii,282,[6]pp. Small octavo. Contemporary calf, spine gilt extra, gilt red leather label. Illustrated with thirty-eight copper-plate engravings (with multiple images per plate). Binding a trifle rubbed, upper joint cracking (but sound), otherwise a very good, crisp copy. The sixth edition, "with considerable improvements," of this standard introductory work, first published in 1775, and reprinted frequently thereafter, with editions appearing well into the mid-19th century. ESTC locates three copies in North America. ESTC T113900. (Inventory #: WRCLIT46632)