A Complete Guide to Heraldry, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint)

A Complete Guide to Heraldry, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from A Complete Guide to Heraldry, Vol. 1

The second point, which perhaps is the most important, is the patent fact that Heraldry and Armory are not a dead science, but are an actual living reality. Armory may be a quaint survival of a time with different manners and customs, and different ideas from our own, but the word Finis has not yet been written to the science, which is still slowly developing and altering and changing as it is suited to the altered manners and customs of the present day. I doubt not that this view will be a startling one to many who look upon Armory as indissolubly associated with parchments and writings already musty with age. But so long as the Sovereign has the power to create a new order of Knighthood, and attach thereto Heraldic insignia, so long as the Crown has the power to create'a new coronet, or to order a new ceremonial, so long as new coats of arms are being called into being, - for so long is it idle to treat Armory and Heraldry as a science incapable of further development, or as a science which in recent periods has not altered in its laws.

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ISBN: 9780265625422
Publisher: Fb&c Ltd
Imprint: Forgotten Books
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Number of pages: 706
Weight: -1g
Height: 10mm
Width: 7mm
Spine width: 2mm