Earls of Warwick since the Norman Conquest, and some account of Warwick Castle, Lond. 1766, 8vo. A Companion to the Peerage of Great Britain and Ireland, Lond. 1776, 8vo. A Complete Body of Heraldry: containing an Historical Enquiry into the origin of Armories; the Proper Methods of Blazoning and Marshalling Armorial Bearings; the Arms of all Sovereign Princes and States; an Historical Catalogue of all the Different Orders of Knighthood; the Arms of the Counties, Cities, Boroughs, and Towns Corporate in England and Wales; and of the abbies and Religious Houses; the Arms of Archiepiscopal and Episcopal Sees; a Discourse on Funeral Trophies; Glover's Ordinary of Arms Aaugmented and Improved; an Alphabet of Arms; and a Copious Glossary, 2 vols. Lond. 1780, folio. An account of the multifarious contents of this splendid work is given in Moule's Bibl. Heraldica, pp. 430–8. Precedency. Lond. (1780?), 24mo. The present Peerages; the Plates of Arms Revised by Joseph Edmondson. Lond. 1785, 8vo. Alphabet of Arms with the Arms in Trick. Manuscript (Thorpe, Cat. of Ancient MSS. 1835, No. 329). Proposal for the Institution of an Order of Merit, with Drawings. Addit. MS. 6330, f. 32. Papers Relating to the Institution of the Order of St Patrick, 1783. Addit. MS. 14410, f. 10. Pedigrees of Families of Great Britain, 1784–6. Addit. MS. 19819. In the compilation of his Baronagium and Complete Body of Heraldry he was greatly assisted by Sir Joseph Ayloffe, Bart. A fine portrait of Edmondson, in his tabard and collar of SS., engraved by Bartolozzi, is prefixed to the first volume of the Complete Body of Heraldry. There is another portrait of him in mezzotint by John Jones, from a painting by Thomas Beach. In the British Museum there is a printed catalogue of his library, including a collection of manuscripts sold 26–28 June 1786. References Year of birth missing 1786 deaths English genealogists English male non-fiction writers College of Arms