[CADOT (Thibault)]. The Blazon of France, or Curious Notes on the Edict Concerning the Police of Arms. Dedicated to the King. Paris, Charles de Sercy, Pierre Auboüyn, Etienne Michallet, Michel Brunet, 1697. In-8, [8] ff, 174 pp, [95] ff. of heraldic dictionary, plates of coats of arms and privilege, with an allegorical frontispiece engraved with burin by Le Paultre after Santer, and 480 coats of arms engraved with burin, some handwritten corrections in ink attributable to Chevalier Gougnon. Tan granite calf, spine ornamented, double cold fillet on the boards, spotted edges (period binding). Restorations to the corners and headpieces otherwise a good copy. Unique edition of this interested defense and illustration of the edict of november 1696, of which Cadot was the instigator: its object was to be attributed the direction and the custody of the General Armorial of France, but it was Charles d'Hozier, already general judge of arms, that Louis XIV chose... This edict of 1696 is a new attempt to control the nobility and to impose registered arms on as many individuals and corporations as possible. The work is, moreover, interesting for its two appendices (final unnumbered ff.): a Dictionary giving the explanation of the terms, figures and pieces of the blazon used in France; the whole of the engraved and captioned blazons being used as example to the rules of the blazoning exposed in the body of the book. (Saffroy I, 2275.) Copy of the knight Gougnon, with handwritten bookplate on the first endpapers. Possibly Jacques Gougnon, known as the knight Gougnon (1651-1730), of a Berrichonne family originating from Auvergne, himself a genealogist and historian of the noble families of Berry.