A genealogical and heraldic history of the commoners of Great Britain and Ireland, enjoying territorial possessions or high official rank; but univested with heritable honours
John Burke's genealogical and heraldic history of the landed commoners of Great Britain and Ireland, published in London by Henry Colburn in 1838 for gentry families tracing pedigrees without titles. Small line-cut shields fill the margins: quartered fields, chevrons, crescents, cross-crosslets and garbs under crested helms with griffins, birds and beasts, all usable as flat black outline emblems and spot ornaments.
