Heraldic Standards and Other Ensigns

First edition, first impression.  xx, 132pp, captioned tissue guarded over colour plate frontispiece, 16 colour plates, with further illustrations in text.   Red cloth-covered boards, gilt stamped lettering on spine.  Boards are clean and bright, just a little rounded at spine ends.  Trace of dustiness to upper text block edge.  Internally neat, clean, bright and tight.  In its original illustrated, matte, dust jacket, not price clipped (but the original printed price has been struck through in pen and replaced with a new price in manuscript), rubbed and bumped at corners and spine ends, with a short open nick at base of the spine and some visible light toning and shelf wear on verso.  

Lt Col Robert Gayre of Gayre and Nigg was a Scottish anthropologist and heraldic historian and a self-style clan chief.  His book is an historical study of flags and military standards, banners, and pennons in Europe, with a strong emphasis on Scottish heraldic practices and conventions.  Generally regarded as a definitive work on the topic, and noted for its detailing of Scottish heraldic conventions in the late 1950s, the author also well noted outside the field of heraldry for his controversial views in relation to scientific racism and white supremacist theories.