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The following works will compliment any heraldic library.

Armorials and Ordinaries

The Dictionary of British Arms (4 vols.)

Papworth's An Alphabetical Dictionary of Coats-of-Arms

Burke's General Armory (1884) and Peerage

General Armory Two by Cecil R. Humphery-Smith

Paul's An Ordinary of Scottish Arms

Rietstap's Armorial General

Rolland's Illustrations (6 vols. in 3) and Supplements (9 vols.)

Siebmacher's Wappenbuch

Fox-Davies' Armorial Families (2 vols.)

Atienza's Diccionario Nobiliario

Gonzalez-Doria's Diccionario Heraldico y Nobiliario

Armorial du Canada Francais (2 vols. in 1) by Massicotte and Roy

Crozier's General Armory and Virginia Heraldica

Bolton's American Armory

Mayer's Saracenic Heraldry

Visitations

Visitation of Ireland (6 vols. in 1) by Howard and Crisp

Dictionaries

A Glossary of Terms Used in Heraldry by James Parker

An Heraldic Alphabet by J.P. Brooks-Little

A Dictionary of Heraldry by Charles Norton Elvin

An Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Heraldry by Julian Franklyn and John Tanner

General

Fox-Davies' A Complete Guide to Heraldry

Fairbairn's Book of Crests

Fox-Davies' The Art of Heraldry

Neubecker's Heraldry: Sources, Symbols & Meaning

Heraldry by F. Edward Hulme

Heraldry for Designers and Craftspeople by W.H. St. John Hope