The Lancaster Long Rifle at the Landis Valley Village & Farm Museum

Large format hardcover in dust jacket. Signed in full on the title page by one of the two authors, John Kolar. Fine hardcover, full bound brown boards with gilt lettering to front board. Clean inside and out, with no markings of any kind. Binding is solid and square. Very Good+ dust jacket, with small bump to upper right front corner. 132 pages, with bibliography and index. A 2012 landmark exhibition of Pennsylvania long rifles, ?The Lancaster Long Rifle, The Golden Age of an American Art Form,? was on view at the Landis Valley Village & Farm Museum. This profusely illustrated, full color, hardbound book titled The Lancaster Long Rifle served as the exhibition catalog, and was authored by the exhibit guest curators Patrick Hornberger and John Kolar, both well-known authorities in the field. This exhibition told the story of the evolution and development of the Pennsylvania long rifle from the German wheel lock to the post-Civil War percussion rifles manufactured by Henry Leman. There were more than 75 firearms on view, including some of the finest known examples.…