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Moncreiffe, Iain, and Don Pottinger. Simple Heraldry, 2nd ed. Edinburgh: John Bartholomew and SonLimited, 1978. Probably the best available introduction to heraldry. This book should be at every heraldicconsulting table. It is simple and amusing, but its visual mnemonics help make learning the various heraldicterms much easier.Neubecker, Ottfried. Heraldry: Sources, Symbols and Meaning. Maidenhead: McGraw-Hill Book Co. (UK)Limited, 1976. This is very much a coffee-table heraldry book. Its main advantage is its wide spectrum ofsources and many photos of period pieces. Useful if you are willing to work to find what you want, but not goodas a first book of heraldry.Volbroth, Carl-Alexander von. Heraldry - Customs, Rules and Styles. Poole: Blandford Press, 1981. Anexcellent scholarly examination of heraldry throughout the world. A good second book (after Boutell or Fox-Davies). The charges from the illustrations are well worth emulation.Volbroth, Carl-Alexander von. Heraldry of the World. Poole: Blandford Press, 1973. A pocket book oflimited usefulness, but handy if you’re prone to giving heraldic advice on camping trips and don’t want to haulalong F-D’s The Art of Heraldry.Woodward, John, and George Burnett. Woodward’s A Treatise on Heraldry British and Foreign withEnglish and French Glossaries. Newton Abbot: David & Charles Reprints, 1969. (Originally published 1892.)An exhaustive (and exhausting) tome that covers European heraldic usage in excruciating depth. Examples ofalmost anything you could want can be found somewhere in its pages. There are both English and Frenchglossaries. An Ordinary to the examples has been published in the SCA.The Business of Being a Herald.Dennys, Rodney. Heraldry & the Heralds. London: Jonathon Cape, 1982. A recent work covering theworkings of the College of Arms and the work of a modern herald. Worth reading, but better to use inter-libraryloan than to purchase.Scott-Giles, C. W. Motley Heraldry. London: Tabard Publications Ltd. Not everything is seriousness. Thiscollection of heraldic poetry shows that the most senior heralds can enjoy a joke, even at their own expense.Scott-Giles, C. W. The Romance of Heraldry. London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1951. A very personal, anecdotalview of the development of heraldry. Keep the inter-library loan staff employed.Wagner, Anthony Richard. Heralds & Heraldry in the Middle Ages, 2nd ed. London: Oxford UniversityPress, 1956. As its title implies, this is a study of the evolution of the functions of heralds and heraldry in theEuropean middle ages. Definitely worth reading.Woodcock, Thomas, and John Martin Robinson. The Oxford Guide to Heraldry. Oxford: Oxford UniversityPress, 1988. A modern examination of the development of heraldry in England. It draws heavily on the recordsof the College of Arms of England. Many of the illustrations, and there are some excellent period examples,have not been published anywhere else previously.Heraldic Art.Allcock, Hubert. Heraldic Design. New York: Tudor Publishing Company, 1962. Generally good drawings.Reasonable information. A variety of styles of artwork. Useful for the heraldic artist.Child, Heather. Heraldic Design. London: Bell & Hyman, 1965. Worth using the inter-library loan to get theuse of this book. Probably not necessary to buy for permanent use. Limited to modern British usage.Eve, G. W. Decorative Heraldry. London: George Bell and Sons, 1897. A good Victorian study of thedecorative use of heraldry. A specialist’s work.Eve, G. W. Heraldry as Art. London: B. T. Batsford, 1907. As with Decorative Heraldry, a specialist’s work.Hope, W. H. St. John. Heraldry for Craftsmen & Designers. London: John Hogg, 1913. Part of the ‘ArtisticCrafts Series of Technical Handbooks’. Examples from many periods.Vinycomb, John. Fictitious & Symbolic Creatures in Art with Special Reference to Their Use in BritishHeraldry. London: Chapman and Hall, Limited, 1906. Everyone steals the illustrations from this work. The textis more directed toward ‘natural history’ than heraldry.Middle Kingdom Pursuivants Handbook 1192nd Edition - 2002