The elements of heraldry, containing the definition, origin, and historical account of that ancient, useful, and entertaining science. The divers sorts of coats-of-arms in use ... The several marks by which bearers of the same coat-of-arms are distinguished from each other... Illustrated with several cuts, and twenty-four copper-plates, containing above five hundred examples of escutcheons, arms, &c. and interspersed with the natural history and allegorical signification of the several species of birds, beasts, fishes, vegetables, &c. comprised in this treatise. To which is annexed, a dictionary of the technical terms. Made use of in heraldry, &c / By M.A. Porny [pseud].

  • Porny, Mr.
Date:
1795
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Credit: The elements of heraldry, containing the definition, origin, and historical account of that ancient, useful, and entertaining science. The divers sorts of coats-of-arms in use ... The several marks by which bearers of the same coat-of-arms are distinguished from each other... Illustrated with several cuts, and twenty-four copper-plates, containing above five hundred examples of escutcheons, arms, &c. and interspersed with the natural history and allegorical signification of the several species of birds, beasts, fishes, vegetables, &c. comprised in this treatise. To which is annexed, a dictionary of the technical terms. Made use of in heraldry, &c / By M.A. Porny [pseud]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    charge of confufion under which it has laboured, and of engaging thereby the gentry of this nation to the ftudy of it.” But their abridgments, for want of containing a fufficient explanation of the principles of the fcience, and proper directions for learning it, have, inftead of making this ftudy more de- lightful by fuch a concifenefs, rendered it abftrufe, dry, and difeouraging. In order to remedy thefe defeCls, I have carefully collected ail I could find eflential in the moft celebrated writers on this fubjeCt, and have endeavoured to digeft it into fo intelligible and ealy a method, that any perfon of ordinary capacity may thereby be enabled to bla-^ zon the moft intricate coat-of-arms. And, as this epitome is chiefly de- figned for the inftruCtion of the Britifh