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.

BRETT (Edwin J.)

Edité par London: Sampson Low Marston & Company, 1894

A propos de cet article

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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• Titre: 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.
• Éditeur: London: Sampson Low Marston & Company
• Date de parution: 1894
• Reliure: Couverture rigide
• Édition: Edition originale
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