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Preface.

found embodied in the text, which plan, although it adds considerably to the cost of production, is more than compensated by the ready facility which it affords for reference.

I have not considered it essential in the following pages to dwell at any length on that portion of the science which refers more especially to Royalty and the Nobility; my purpose is to treat principally of the laws and usages which regulate the heraldry of Gentlemen.

The student who, having mastered the grammar of Heraldry, may be desirous of acquiring a deeper knowledge of this most interesting science, is referred, inter alia, to Nesbit’s System of Heraldry; Guillim’s Display of Heraldry; Edmondson’s Complete Body of Heraldry; Berry’s Encyclopædia Heraldica; Synopsis of the Peerage; and The Historic Peerages of England, by Sir Harris Nicholas; Parker’s Dictionary of Heraldry; Fairbairn’s Crests; Planché’s Pursuivant of Arms; Burke’s, Debrett’s, and Dod’s Peerages; Robson’s British Herald; Boutell’s Heraldry, Historical and Popular; and Newton’s Display of Heraldry.