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Synopsis

Comprises information concerning persons bearing hereditary or courtesy titles, privy councillors, knights, companions of the various orders and the collateral branches of peers and baronets. illustrated with over 2000 armourial bearings. edited by c. f. j. hankinson. consulting editor arthur g. m. hesilrige.

Item Description

Large 8vo. 10 x 6.25 inches. lxiv + 1828 pp. + [24] pp. Appendix + 32 pp. advertisements and photographic portraits. Half title and title page in red and black. Main text of Knightage and Companionage in double columns. Bound in original red cloth, gilt, decorated in gilt and black. Bevelled board edges. Extremities quite worn with some early repairs to spine. Some foxing largely confined to preliminaries and contents page creased; otherwise a very good copy. Peerage and Baronetage illustrated by text figures and by coats of arms. Decorated by publisher's device on title page. Pictorial endpapers. A complete listing of the British nobility, including sections on the royal family and household, the Church of England, judiciary, orders of knighthood and tables of precedence, with appendix on holders of Royal Warrants. Illustrated with the coats of arms of the peerage and baronetage, the royal regalia, etc. At the end are advertising plates and photographic portraits of the royal family on art paper. Edited by Cyril Francis James Hankinson (1895-1984), editor of the Peerage, 1935-62 (World Press co. website). John Debrett (1753-1822), of Huguenot extraction, started his career apprenticed to a London bookseller and publisher. He took over an earlier Peerage and first published his own in 1802. The 2008 edition of the Peerage was published in 2008.