Buy this book on-line WILKINSON-LATHAM, JOHN: : BRITISH CUT AND THRUST WEAPONSUK.NEWTON ABBOT,DEVON.DAVID & CHARLES (PUBLISHERS) LIMITED.,1971, ISBN 0715353519.
UK,slim Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE+/vg+.No owner inscrptn but price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp, clean,glossy laminated,wrap-around monochrome photographic illustrated dw/dj with gold colour+ black lettering; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to front edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Dw/dj's rear panel edges and corners with light deterioration of reciprocal laminate with resultant chipping/rubbing.Top edges lightly toned and lightly dust-soiled with faint but sporadic foxing/spotting,fore-edges clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean, sharp-cornered with exception of front lower corner which is minimally bumped and creased, publisher's original plain maroon cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine /backstrip,and immaculate plain white endpapers. UK,slim Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn,7-112pp [paginated] includes an introduction,8 chapters, 75 b/w photographs interspersed throughout the text,along with 17 b/w diagrams similarly interspersed,appendices (1-4),a bibliography, acknowledgements,an index; plus [unpaginated] half-title with b/w illustration to verso,title page,and contents list/table.
This well-illustrated study traces the development of edged weapons and their adoption by the British Armed Forces,before describing in detail the swords of cavalry and mounted troops,infantry,general officers,yeomanry and Militia,and the navy and the air force.There are chapters on bayonets and fighting knives and pole arms,together with a review of manufacturing processes in this survey of some two hundred years of British military history.
For the collector and the military historian this guide will serve as a useful reference for the identification and cataloguing of weapons, and on fine points such as variations worn by regiments by custom rather than by regulation.
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