The compleat gentleman. Fashioning him absolut, in the most necessary and commendable qualities concerning minde or body, that may be required in a noble gentleman. Wherevnto is annexed a description of the order of a maine battaile or pitched field, eight severall wayes. With the art of limming and other additions newly enlarged / By Henry Peacham.
Henry Peacham's conduct manual for English gentlemen, printed in London in 1634, covering learning, bodily exercise, limning, military array and a long section on blazoning arms. The woodcut illustrations are small escutcheons set into the text column, showing bends, chevrons, cinquefoils, ermine and hatched tinctures in plain black line \u2014 a ready stock of shield shapes and heraldic charges.
