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Arms & Armour

18thC
Gabriel Deniel : Histoire de la Milice Francaise
(1721 Paris)
Francis Grose : Treatise on Ancient Armour & Weapons
(1786 Egerton)
(1970 Benchmark : Facsimile Edition)
Francis Grose : Military Antiquities
(1786-8 London) - 2 vols
(1812 Stockdale. New Ed)

19thC
Samuel Rush Meyrick : A Critical Enquiry into Ancient Armour
(1824 Jennings) - 3 vols
Joseph Skelton : Engraved Illustrations of Ancient Armour from the Collection
at Goodrich Court
(1830 for Author)
John Hewitt : Ancient Armour and Weapons in Europe
(1855-60 Henry & Parker) - 3 vols
Auguste Demmin : Weapons of War
(1870 Bell & Daldy)
Baron de Cosson & W Burgess : Ancient Helmets & Examples of Mail
(1881 Archaeological Institute)
John Drummond : Ancient Scottish Weapons
(1881 Waterson)
Richard Burton : The Book of the Sword
(1884 Chatto & Windus)
(1972 EP : Facsimile Edition)
Egerton Castle : Schools and Masters of Fence
(1885 Bell)
(1969 Arms & Armour : Facsimile Edition)
Charles Boutell : Arms & Armour in Antiquity and the Middle Ages
(1893 Reeves & Turner)
Edwin J Brett : A Pictorial & Descriptive Record of the Origin & Development of Arms & Armour
(1894 Sampson Low)
(Compiler) Guy Laking : The Important Collection of Armour & Arms of Edwin J Brett
(1895 Christie's) - catalogue
J Starkie Gardner : Armour in England
(1898 Seeley)

1901-1910
Guy Laking : A Catalogue of the Armour and Arms in the Armoury of the Knights
of St John of Jerusalem
(1904 Bradbury & Agnew)
Guy Laking : The Armour of Windsor Castle
(1904 Bradbury & Agnew)
Viscount Dillon : An Almain Armourer's Album
(1905 Griggs)
Charles de Lacy Lacy : The History of the Spur
(1905 the Connoisseur)
A F Calvert : Spanish Arms and Armour
(1907 Bodley Head)
Charles Ffoulkes : Arms & Weapons
(1909 Clarendon Press)
(1973 EP : Facsimile Edition)
Charles Ashdown : British & Foreign Arms and Armour
(1909 Jack)
Guy Laking : Catalogue of the European Armour & Arms
(1910 Wallace Collection)
Viscount Dillon : Illustrated Guide to the Armouries, Tower of London
(1910 HMSO)
Maurice Bottet : L'Arme Blance de Guerre Francaise au XVIII Siecle
(1910 Leroy) - 300

1911-1920
Charles Ffoulkes : European Arms and Armour in the University of Oxford
(1912 Clarendon Press)
Charles Ffoulkes : The Armourer and His Craft
(1912 Methuen)
(1967 Blom : Facsimile Edition)
Bashford Dean : The Collection of Arms and Armour of Rutherford Stuyvesant
(1914 Met Museum of Art)
Charles Ffoulkes : Inventory and Survey of the Armouries of the Tower of London
(1916 HMSO)
The Collection of Arms and Armour .. of the Late Sir Guy Laking
(1920 Christie's) - catalogue
Guy Laking : A Record of European Armour and Arms through Seven Centuries
(1920-2 Bell) - 5 vols

1921-1930
Charles Ashdown L Armour and Weapons in the Middle Ages
(1925 Harrap)
(1967 Brussel : Facsimile Edition)
Francis Cripps-Day : A Record of Armour Sales 1881-1924
(1925 Bell)
Bashford Dean : European Court Swords & Hutnign Swords
(1929 Met Museum of Art)
Bashford Dean : European Daggers 1300-1800
(1929 Met Museum of Art)
O G Trapp : The Armour of the Castle of Churchburg
(1929 Methuen)

1931-1950
T T Belote : American & European Swords in the Historical Collections of the United States
National Museum
(1932 Smithsonian Institute) (1970 Benchmark : Facsimile Edition)
George Stone : A Glossary of the Construction, Decoration & Use of Arms & Armour
(1934 Southworth Press) (1961 Brussel)
Charles Ffoulkes & E C Hopkinson : Sword, Lance & Bayonet
(1938 CUP)
(1969 Arms & Armour : Facsimile Edition)
J D Aylwood : The Smallsword in England
(1945 Hutchinson)

1951-1960
John Haywood : Swords and Daggers - V & A Catalogue
(1951 HMSO)
European Arms and Armour of the 15thC from the William Randolph Hearst Collection
(1952 Parke-Bernet) - Auction catalogue
Jeffrey Farnol Sale
(1953 Sotheby's) - Auction Catalogue
Harold Petersen : Arms and Armour in Colonial America
(1956 Stackpole)
Claude Blair : European Armour
(1958 Batsford)
R Ewart Oakeshott : The Archaeology of Weapons
(1960 Lutterworth)

1961-1970
Claude Blair : European and American Arms
(1962 Batsford)
H Davidson : The Sword in Anglo-Saxon England
(1962 Clarendon Press)
James Mann : European Arms & Armour in the Wallace Collection
(1962 Wallace Collection)
R Ewart Oakeshott : The Sword in the Age of Chivalry
(1964 Lutterworth)
Herbert Saltz : Blankwaffen
(1965 Klinkhardt & Biermann)
Eduard Wagner : Cut and Thrust Weapons
(1967 Spring Books)
R Dufty : European Armour in the Tower of London
(1968 HMSO)
Harold Petersen : Daggers and Fighting Knives of the Western World
(1968 Jenkins)
Eric Valentine : Rapiers
(1968 Arms & Armour)
P G Annis & W E May : Swords for Sea Service
(1970 HMSO)
P G Annis : Naval swords
(1970 Arms & Armour)
John Wallace : Scottish Swords and Dirks
(1970 Stackpole)

1971 Onwards
H Blackmore : Hunting Weapons
(1971 Barrie & Jenkins)
G Neumann : Sword and Blades of the American Revolution
(1973 Stackpole)
R Dufty : European Swords and Daggers in the Tower of London
(1974 HMSO)
Terence Wise : European Edged Weapons
(1974 Almark)
Lionello Boccia & Eduardo Coelho : Armi Bianche Italiane
(1975 Bramante Editirice)
J Schobel : Princely Arms and Armour
(1975 Barrie & jenkins)
R Ewart Oakeshott : European Weapons and Armour
(1980 Lutterworth)
A V B Norman : The Rapier and the Small sword
(1980 Arms & Armour) + signed Ltd Ed 100
Leonid Tarassuk & Claude Blair : The Complete Encyclopaedia of Arms and Weapons
(1982 Batsford)
Antony North : An Introdcution to European swords
(1982 HMSO)
Michael Coe et al : Swords and Hilt Weapons
(1989 Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
R Ewart Oakeshott : Records of the Medieval sword
(1991 Boydell Press)