The British Compendium. Or, a particular Account of All the ...

Hammer

£50

The British Compendium. Or, a particular Account of All the present Nobility, both Spiritual and Temporal [...], Also an Account of all the Bishopricks (sic) and Deaneries [...], Likewise the Arms and Coronets of the Peers [...], To which is added, An Introduction to the ancient and most noble Science of Heraldry, two parts as issued, second edition, London: Printed by H. Meere and sold by J. Smith, 1719, frontispiece and title-page chipped, the latter with loss of first word, complete, collating: viii, 67 (engraved plates, one publisher's advert); xi, 264, [4]pp (index), split but holding, some handling marks and toning in places, contemporary calf over boards, small 8vo; an 18th c volume of armorials, n.d. [c. 1780], approx. 60ff of engraved plates, mostly-hand-coloured, illustrating English, Scottish and Irish peers', baronets' and prelates' coats of arms, occasionally annotated, sometimes mutilated, contemporary English crimson morocco, tired, marbled endpapers, 20th c crested bookplate: Ex Libris Hugh Ballantyne, 12mo, (2)