SELECTED BOOKS ON OLD ARMS, FOREIGN 



ARMS, ETC. 



2301. ANCIENT ARMS AND ARMOUR. E. J. Brett. A 

 pictorial and descriptive record of the origin and 

 development of Arms and Armour. This is a com- 

 prehensive work, embodying the results of much 

 research, and well illustrated with specially drawn 

 plates from the author's own fine collection. It is the 

 fullest and most recently written work on the subject 

 of which it treats. Sampson Low & Co., London, 1894. 

 Imperial 4to, 650 pp., 133 plates, with about 1200 

 illustrations. 5 5s. 



2302. ANCIENT ARMOUR AND WEAPONS IN EUROPE to end 

 of XVII. century. John Hewitt. An account of 

 Arms and Armour in the Royal Armoury, with supple- 

 ment. Oxford and London, 1855-60. 8vo. 3 vols. 



2303. A CRITICAL INQUIRY INTO ANTIENT ARMOUR, as it 

 existed in Europe, particularly in Great Britain, from 

 the Norman Conquest to the Reign of King Charles II. 

 Illustrated with a series of illuminated engravings, 

 with a glossary of military terms of the Middle Ages. 

 Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick. Jennings, London. 2nd 

 edition. 3 vols. 1842. 



2304. ENGRAVED ILLUSTRATIONS OP ANCIENT ARMS AND 

 ARMOUR from the collection of Llewelyn Meyrick, Esq., 

 at Goodrich Court, Herefordshire ; after the drawings 

 and with the descriptions of Dr. Meyrick. Joseph 

 Skelton. Gives in the preface an explanation of the 

 difficulties which attended the production of the 

 " Critical Inquiry," and the fact that " three succes- 

 sive proprietors became bankrupt before the whole 



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