Ancient Armour and Weapons in Europe: From the Iron Period of the Northern Nations to the End of the Seventeenth Century with Illustrations from Contemporary Monuments, Complete in Three Volumes [3 Vol. Set]

Oxford and London: John Henry and James Parker, 1860. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. Published in 1860 and complete in three volumes, this handsome set, with gilt shields gleaming from each front cover, displays the range of armory and weaponry of European warfare from the Iron Age all the way to the 17th Century, following progress in military science and knightly equipment, swords and shield bosses and bowmen, musquets and pikemen, chain-mail and archery and so much more, all fully armed with and illustrated in more than 230 engravings throughout.

8 7/8" X 6 1/8". xxv, 387pp; xviii, 343pp; vi, [iii], 348-764pp. All three volumes bound uniformly in royal blue cloth over boards, with decorative device stamped in gilt, within a Celtic knot border, to upper boards, with spines lettered decoratively to spines in gilt. Mild wear to bindigns, with bumping to corners and spine tips, small tears to heads and tails of sun-darkened spines, light scattered rubbing to cloth, and slight lean to spines. Brown coated endpapers. Binder's ticket of Burn & Co. to rear pastedown and bookseller's ticket of sporting book specialist E. Chalmers-Hallam, dated 1954, to front pastedown of Volume I. Small tears to interior hinges. Bindings are firm and sound. Occasional light scattered foxing to pages throughout, else unmarked. Illustrated in a total of 237 engravings.

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