Handbook of Heraldry, with instructions for tracing pedigrees and deciphering ancient mss.

John E. Cussans

Published by Chatto & Windus, Piccadilly, 1882

No ISBN. Third Edition with an ex-libris from Thomas Picton Rose Richards on the front paste-down. 

This third edition hardcover  (12.5cm x 19.3cm) has 350 pp. and 32 pp. in the back advertising other books by the publisher. The spine is cracked between the endpapers in the front and back and in places within. There is bending and wear to the spine head/foot; bumping and wear to corners; discoloration and foxing of the text block edges; and foxing throughout. One page has come loose in the front, the coloured frontispiece.

 For sale by Priory Books, Warwickshire County Record Office's secondhand bookshop