Meyrick's Critical Inquiry into Ancient Armour
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Author: Meyrick, Sir Samuel Rush
Title: A Critical Inquiry into Ancient Armour, as it existed in Europe, particularly in Great Britain, from the Norman Conquest to the Reign of King Charles II...
Place Published: London
Publisher:Henry G. Bohn
Date Published: 1824
Description:
Author: Meyrick, Sir Samuel Rush
Title: A Critical Inquiry into Ancient Armour, as it existed in Europe, particularly in Great Britain, from the Norman Conquest to the Reign of King Charles II...
Place Published: London
Publisher:Henry G. Bohn
Date Published: 1824
Description:
3 vols. 20, [2], lxxvii, 206; [4], 297; [4], 147, [134] pp. Illustrated with 80 engraved plates, 70 of them being hand-colored aquatints; hand-colored pictorial and decorative initials. (Folio) 39x28 cm (15¼x11"), early red half morocco and marbled boards, spines lettered in gilt, top edges gilt. First Edition.
Striking work with numerous brightly hand-colored aquatint plates of knights and soldiers of the Middle Ages and their armor and weapons. Many of the plates depict armor in Meyrick's own collection. Sir Walter Scott described it as "this most superb archaeological work".
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Bindings a bit worn, some scuffs and pulls to leather; light foxing; very good.
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