This elegant and erudite work is most appropriately dedicated to Charles, Duke of Norfolk, and Earl Marshal of England, the hereditary patron of the subject of which it treats. - Nothing had contributed so much to cause heraldry to be disregarded, as the confused and affected style of some of the writers who had inquired into its origin and history. Mr. Dalloway has here, with the pen of a Tacitus, accurately defined, in a most comprehensive manner, its rise and progress from the earliest through the most interesting periods of British history, accommodating the study to modern system. - Thomas Moule, Bibliotheca Heraldica Magnae Britanniae. Former owner may be the Mr. Fearing who was mayor of Newport in the 1890s.
