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1965 The Art of the Gunmaker Volume One 1500-1660
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Description
Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, With Dustwrapper
Second edition. Volume one of two only. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, three colour plates, eighty black-and-white plates, and two in-text figures. Collated complete. The history of European and American firearms from 1500 to 1660, with a full account of technical development and the various styles and techniques of ornament which turns these weapons into works of art. Written by John Forrest Hayward, an English arms and metalwork scholar of the Victoria and Albert Museum.
Condition
In the original brown cloth binding. Externally, very smart with light wear to the extremities and the odd small mark to the boards. Original unclipped dust wrapper is smart with light wear and minor chipping to the extremities. The odd small crease at the panel edges and the odd small mark to the panels. Light sunning to the spine with the odd small closed tear to the panel edges. Light loss to the rear panel with sympathetic reinforcement made with paper to the internal side of at the head and tail of the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with light spotting to the endpapers.
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