A visitation of the seats and arms of the noblemen and gentlemen of Great Britain
Sir Bernard Burke's survey of the country houses and heraldry of British noble and gentry families, published by Colburn in London in 1852 for landed readers and genealogists. Engraved plates show quartered shields, crests on wreaths and torses, and ribboned mottoes in Latin and English, supplying ready-made escutcheon shapes, hatched tinctures, beasts, birds and banner scrolls.
