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Heraldic Design »
Authors: Hubert R. Allcock
ISBN-13: 9780486429755, ISBN-10: 048642975X
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Dover Publications
Date Published: January 2004
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Author Biography: Hubert R. Allcock
Book Synopsis
Rich sourcebook of approximately 500 black-and-white designs traces history and meaning of the shield, symbols, crests, helmets, and blazonry, with special emphasis on such devices as beasts, monsters, human, and part-human figures. American, British, French, and Russian costs of arms are displayed, as are insignias of the clergy, state seals, and modern institutions.
Table of Contents
| Introduction | 7 | |
| A Complete Armorial Achievement | 12 | |
| Components of a Complete Achievement | 13 | |
| The Shield | 14 | |
| Tinctures | 15 | |
| Charges | 16 | |
| Devices | 18 | |
| Beasts and Monsters | 18 | |
| Birds and a Bee | 20 | |
| Vegetables and Fish | 21 | |
| A Variety of Objects | 22 | |
| Human and Part Human | 24 | |
| The Crest | 25 | |
| Impalement of Arms | 26 | |
| Quartering | 27 | |
| Cadency: The Inheritance Line | 28 | |
| Blazonry | 29 | |
| Your Own Personal or Commercial Coat | 33 | |
| Calligraphy | 36 | |
| A Sampling of Symbols | 38 | |
| Commercial Arms | 40 | |
| Arms of the World | 43 | |
| American Arms | 44 | |
| British Arms | 49 | |
| Scotch Arms | 57 | |
| Irish Arms | 60 | |
| French Arms | 62 | |
| Spanish Arms | 64 | |
| Italian Arms | 66 | |
| Teutonic Arms | 68 | |
| Scandinavian Arms | 70 | |
| Russian Arms | 72 | |
| Arms of the Pope and Clergy | 74 | |
| Arms of the American Republics | 76 | |
| Some Early American Arms | 78 | |
| Some U. S. Governmental Seals | 80 | |
| Seals of the States | 82 | |
| Academic Arms | 87 | |
| Bibliography | 89 | |
| Glossary-Index | 90 |
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