file which includes the original illustrations.
THE MANUAL OF HERALDRY:

Being a Concise Description of the Several Terms Used, and
Containing a Dictionary of Every Designation in the Science

Illustrated by Four Hundred Engravings on Wood

Fifth Edition

London:
Arthur Hall, Virtue & Co.
25, Paternoster Row.
London:
R. Clay, Printer, Bread Street Hill.







CHAPTER I.

ORIGIN OF COATS OF ARMS.


Heraldry is the science which teaches how to blazon or describe in
proper terms armorial bearings and their accessories.