Heraldry simplified; a popular treatise on the subject of heraldry, together with a glossary of technical terms, and nearly two hundred drawings (1899)
Curtis, Frederick · New York, Dodge Pub. Co. · leaf 14
those entitled to bearsuch hereditary marks of honor. Apart from this,its teachings are valuable, enabling those conversantwith it to understand many allusions that occur notonly in Shakespeare and Scott, but in modern davwriters such as Conan Dovle, whose White Com- pany is full of heraldic terms.… … Ignorance of the science leads occasionally toludicrous mistakes being made by those who im-properly assume armorial bearings. A little know-ledge thereof suffices to show that a cross or crescentin any of its forms, is evidence that the originalgrantee of the arms had been engaged in the Cru-sades…
Heraldry
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