The peerage of England : a complete view of the several orders of nobility ... together with an introduction, shewing the high and illustrious extraction of our most gracious sovereign: also an historical account of all the offices of state, usually filled by the nobility, the arms of the all the Lords spiritual and temporal, three useful plates teaching the art of heraldry, &c. &c. &c.
Edward Kimber's peerage of England, printed in London in 1766 for readers tracking the ranks, offices and arms of the British nobility, in a copy once owned by John Adams. The plates are rows of engraved escutcheons filled with quartered fields, chevrons, crosses, ermine spots, roundels and hatched tinctures, plus blank shields ready to be charged — a supply of small heraldic units, line-shading patterns and shield outlines for monograms, labels and crests.
