IDENTIFIERS
-----------
id:	118850
accession number:	PB 70-1992

DATE AUDIT
----------
created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Thursday 17 July 2025

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
----------------
object type: The fifth edition.
London : Printed for G. G. and J. Robinson, W. Goldsmith, J. Scatcherd, W. Bent and G. and T. Wilkie, 1795
xxiv, 278, [81] pages : coats of arms, ill., plates 
Manuscript note regarding arms of Bangor inserted p 69
title:	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

LICENSING
---------
text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
---------
instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Manuscripts and Printed Books

STABLE URL
----------
url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/118850





TECHNIQUES
----------
printing

CATEGORIES
------
category: book

DATING
------
creation date:	1795 - 1795
creation date earliest:	1795
creation date latest:	1795

CREATORS
--------
maker: Porny, M. A.