A Pictorial and Descriptive Record of the Origin and Development of Arms and Armour. To which appended 133 plates specially drawn from the collection at Oaklands, St. Peter's, Thanet, and Burleigh House, London.
Published by London: Sampson Low Marston & Company, 1894
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Forest Books, ABA-ILAB, Grantham, LINCS, United KingdomForest Books, ABA-ILAB
AbeBooks seller since May 23, 1997
Condition: Used
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First edition, folio (360 x 275 mm), xii, 120, 8pp., 133 leaves of plates, each plate is preceded by 1 or 2 pages of descriptive text which are not included in the pagination, endpapers heavily spotted, text and plates nice and clean, original hard-grain black morocco, lightly rubbed, gilt lettering to upper cover, a.e.g. a very good copy. Extensive account on the history of arms and armour representing the author's private collection dating from the fourteenth to the seventeenth century. Provenance: Armorial bookplate of Alfred William Cox to front paste-down.
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- A Pictorial and Descriptive Record of the Origin and Development of Arms and Armour. To which appended 133 plates specially drawn from the collection at Oaklands, St. Peter's, Thanet, and Burleigh House, London.
- Author
- BRETT (Edwin J.)
- Publisher
- London: Sampson Low Marston & Company
- Publication year
- 1894
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Seller catalogs
- WEAPONS
Forest Books, ABA-ILAB
Grantham, LINCS, United Kingdom
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