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[Sammelband of three heraldry books of the late-eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries] Pinnock’s Catechisms. A Catechism of Heraldry: Explaining the Nature of the Various Coats of Arms, &c. And distinguishing them by their appropriate Heraldic terms. Illustrated with Numerous Engravings in Wood. [bound with] Fielding’s Arms of the Peers and Peeresses of England, Scotland & Ireland, with their Mottos translated; Plates of the Four Orders of Knighthood; An Introduction to Heraldry; and Lists of English Titles Conferred, and those Extinct since the Accession of His Present Majesty. [and] The Arms, Crests, and Supporters, of the Present Baronets of Great Britain. Engraved by B. Longmate.
Publisher: Pinnock and Maunder, John Fielding, John Stockdale, London;
Date of Publication: 1786
Stock Code: 14550
Pinnock’s Heraldry is the third edition. Duodecimo-size, sig. A–B¹⁸ [-A1, A2] + fspiece; π¹ χ⁴ A⁴ B–N² O⁸ [-O8]; B–D⁶ A⁶ + 12 engraved plates, pp., [2], [6]–69, [2] of ads, [1] blank, plus engraved frontispiece; [2] prelims, 8 engraved plates, [1] engraved title-page, [69] plates, 18 of ‘introduction’, [18] index of mottoes; 12, 24 of plates. Half-calf over marbled paper, blind rolls to boards, titled in gilt to leather spine label, top edge dyed red. Extremities rubbed, upper joint a little worn. ‘A Catechism of Heraldry’ may lack two preliminary leaves, but this bookseller cannot confidently infer the ideal state of this book from the available physical evidence, some pages cropped close, the third publication ostensibly bound out of order, but given the registration of the index (A gathering) is both continuous and self-contained, this may well be the intended state. A well-preserved copy. A well-illustrated collection of heraldry pamphlets from the turn of the nineteenth century. A necessarily unique volume, gathering together ephemeral and accessible works on coats of arms, emblems, badges, and medals. £95.00