The British compendium: or, rudiments of honour: wherein are contain'd, the genealogy, titles, Posts, Marriages, Inter-Marriages, Issue, Publick Transactions, and Names of the Seats of all the present nobility of England. Likewise their coats of arms, Supporters, Crests, Motto's, Coronets, and the peers in their robes; all curiously engrav'd on an Hundred and Twenty Copper-Plates. To which is added an introduction to heraldry. With the addition of all the supporters, Crests, and Motto's, which are not in any former impression ; and their Blazon, as they are painted on their Coaches.
- Nichols, Francis, active 18th century.
- Date:
- [1721]
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About this work
Also known as
British compendium. Vol.1
Publication/Creation
London : printed by H. Meere, for A. Bettesworth at the Red-Lyon in Pater-Noster-Row, [1721]
Physical description
[2],[2],363,[5]p.,plates : ill. ; 160.
Contributors
Edition
The fourth edition, very correct.
References note
ESTC T77911
Reproduction note
Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2003. (Eighteenth century collections online). Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.