Blair, Claude EUROPEAN ARMOUR circa 1066 to circa 1700 , Batsford, London, 1972,

reissue, 248pp, half tone photo frontis, half tone photo ills. and line drawings in text, grey cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured pictorial dustwrapper, an account of the evolution of European field armour from 1066 until the improvements of gunpowder made armour obsolete, tracing the transition from mail to plate, covering several varieties of Gothic armour, the products of individual armourers and workshops, horse and tournament armour and the development of decoration through the 14th and 15th centuries, with over two hundred illustrations, re-issue of a work first published in 1958, edges lightly tanned, patches of tanning to prelims., dustwrapper: price clipped, lightly rubbed at extrems., very good plus in a very good dustwrapper, (Book ref. 41164)  £36.00

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