TWO VOLUMES - Boxed Set: "The Book of Colt Engraving" and "The Book of Winchester Engraving"

Quartos (each 12 1/4 by 9 1/4 inches) Los Angeles: Beinfeld Publishing, Inc.. First Editions. Hardcover. Very good condition.

Colt volume has 422 pages, and the Winchester volume has 402 pages; both are printed on coated stock, and profusely illustrated with black and white and color photographs including several fold out plates. There is a General Index, and a Model Index in each book.

The Colt volume, published in 1974, is bound in blue leatherette, with the title in silver on the front cover over the rampant Colt trademark; the Winchester volume, published in 1975, is bound in red leatherette, with the title in silver over the Winchester horse and rider trademark. The leatherette boxed slip case has minor nicks at the edges, and a few scratches, neither affecting either volume - which are both clean and bright.

Two scholarly and informative volumes about two famous American gun manufacturers and their engraving art. "The present volumes, one on the Colts, the companion book on Winchesters, represent over twenty years of study and research. Thousands of documents were sifted through for new facts. Descendants of long deceased craftsmen were located for fragments of data . . . . Retired engravers and still-active craftsmen have been interviewed at length. And being professionally active in the contemporary engraving field . . . has allowed the author a rare inside-look at all aspects of firearms decoration."

Both volumes sold together as a set, at one price for the set.