Meyrick, Samuel Rush, Sir '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 BY A SERIES OF ILLUMINATED ENGRAVINGS. WITH A GLOSSARY OF MILITARY TERMS OF THE MIDDLE AGES ... SECOND EDITION, CORRECTED AND ENLARGED'. LONDON: HENRY G. BOHN, 1842 3 volumes, folio (14 3/8 x 10 3/8 in.; 366 x 264mm). Half-titles, hand-colored lithographic frontispiece to vol. I, 80 plates, 70 of which hand-colored aquatints, most heightened with gilt, and 10 etched uncolored plates, 27 large hand-colored initials, most heightened with gilt; minor offsetting. Publisher's red half morocco over marbled boards, spines with raised bands in six compartments, second and third with gilt-lettered morocco labels, others with repeat decorative borders surrounding a single large tool of a helm in the first and sixth compartments, crossed swords in the fourth, and a gauntlet and pair of spurs in the fifth, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt; rubbing primarily to boards and joints.
Meyrick, Samuel Rush, Sir '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 BY A SERIES OF ILLUMINATED ENGRAVINGS. WITH A GLOSSARY OF MILITARY TERMS OF THE MIDDLE AGES ... SECOND EDITION, CORRECTED AND ENLARGED'. LONDON: HENRY G. BOHN, 1842 3 volumes, folio (14 3/8 x 10 3/8 in.; 366 x 264mm). Half-titles, hand-colored lithographic frontispiece to vol. I, 80 plates, 70 of which hand-colored aquatints, most heightened with gilt, and 10 etched uncolored plates, 27 large hand-colored initials, most heightened with gilt; minor offsetting. Publisher's red half morocco over marbled boards, spines with raised bands in six compartments, second and third with gilt-lettered morocco labels, others with repeat decorative borders surrounding a single large tool of a helm in the first and sixth compartments, crossed swords in the fourth, and a gauntlet and pair of spurs in the fifth, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt; rubbing primarily to boards and joints.
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