Armorial

18x24 cm

Set of four plates:
ARMS OF THE CITY COMPANIES. Plate I
ARMS OF THE CITY COMPANIES. Plate II
ARMS OF THE CITY COMPANIES, &c. Plate III.
Arms of Trading Companies, Hospitals, Inns of Court, Societies, &c. Plate IV. 
Each plate with the imprint Engraved for Noorthouck's History of London and signed B Longmate sculpsit or (plate 3) Longmate Sculp 

135 engravings of the arms, supporters, crests and mottos.
Engraved by Barak Longmate (1738-1793) for A New History of London including Westminster and Southwark...by John Noorthouck...R. Baldwin, London 1773.  
Barak Longmate was a London engraver and genealogical writer who produced eclipse maps for George Witchell and The General Magazine of Arts and Sciences, a map of Oxford, and a map of the coast of New Zealand after James Cook. He is best known for his heraldic work, editing Collins's Peerage of England...London 1779. After his death his heraldic library was auctioned by Leigh & Sotheby in March 1794 raising £235.9s.9d., a market value of around £2.5M today.
A very good set in fine hand colour. 

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