British and Foreign Arms & Armour

Excerpt from British and Foreign Arms and Armour The study of Arms and Armour is one of absorbing interest to a large and ever increasing number of the community inasmuch as it appeals in a marked degree to the student of history the antiquarian and to those who work in the realms of art. To the first it appeals as a concrete reminder Of the struggles of nations for liberty independence power or conquest; to the second it breathes of the age in which it saw the light with all the feeling and tone which char acterised it; to the third it is a source of delight by the consummate beauty of its form or the exquisite details of its adornment. Unfortunately there are few books extant which serve as a guide to the student although there are many which deal with the subject. The great works of Meyrick with Skelton his illustrator are standard only in a sense that it is necessary to be thoroughly acquainted with the subject in order to guard against the many errors embodied in them. Grose is hopelessly antiquated while Fosbroke Stothard Strutt Shaw Planché Cotman and others who flourished before or about the Sixties only deal pictorially or casually with the subject. The Rev. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases an imperfection in the original such as a blemish or missing page may be replicated in our edition. We do however repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.