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MEYRICK, Sir Samuel Rush

A critical Inquiry into ancient armour from the Norman Conquest to the Reign of King Charles II

London
Henry G. Bohn
1842

€900 - €1.400

"3 vol. in-folio, xiv + [iv] + lxv + 179; [iv] + 247; [iv] + 126 + [138] pp. With contemp. hand col. lithogr. frontisp., 80 numbered plates of which 70 contemp. hand-col. aquatint plates & 10 etched plates plates by R. Bridgens after S.R. Meyrick, and 27 large contemp. hand-col. and heightened in gold and historiated chapter initials. Splendid copy. Bound in half red morocco, decorative endpapers, all edges gilt. An attractive copy of a splendid publication"

"First published in 1824 this is the corrected and enlarged 2nd edition. ""Meyrick's great work on arms and armour ... beautifully coloured and illuminated in gold and silver ... [was] practically the first on the subject"" (DNB). Sir Walter Scott described it as ""this most superb archeological work."" Ex-libris Max Dreger (Max Dreger was an expert in the technique of arms and an arms collector, he assembled an important library of military treatises on fortification and artillery). Ref. Lipperheide Qb62"