Carte Méthodique

This limited facsimile edition of 500 packs was published in 1982 by Vito Arienti of Edizioni del Solleone. It is a reproduction of a French pack created by François Silvestre and first produced in Paris in 1712 by J. Mariette, intended to teach heraldry and originally titled “Carte méthodique pour apprendre aisement le blazon en jouant”. Solleone first reproduced this pack in 1974 in a limited edition of 120 packs, and appears to have reprinted it again in 1982 in a run of a further 500 packs.

There are 52 cards plus an extra card showing “the proofs of 8 quarters of Mr le Comte d'Aghien, son of Marshal de Noailles” and a dedication to the Duc de Bourgogne. All cards are in black and white on slightly yellowish tan unfinished stock with plain white backs. The descriptions on the cards are in French. For a biography of the engraver and translation of the dedication see here►

Above: facsimile of “Carte Méthodique” created by François Silvestre and produced in Paris in 1712 by J. Mariette re-published in 1982 by Vito Arienti of Edizioni del Solleone.

A later edition of these heraldic cards published by Jean-François Daumont and dedicated to the Comte d’Artois in c.1775 can be viewed at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France here: Carte méthodique►