£420
A CRITICAL ENQUIRY INTO ANCIENT ARMOUR, AS IT EXISTED IN EUROPE, PARTICULARLY IN GREAT BRITAIN, FROM THE NORMAN CONQUEST TO THE REIGN OF KING CHARLES II, BY SIR SAMUEL RUSH MEYRICK, SECOND EDITION, IN 3 HALF LEATHER BOUND VOLUMES - 1842 -3-
3 volumes, folio (36.6 x 26.4cm), contemporary red half morocco, spines gilt in compartments with labels to second and third and military motifs to remainder, all edges gilt, hand-coloured lithographic frontispiece to volume 1, 70 hand-coloured plates (etchings with aquatint), 10 uncoloured etched plates, tissue-guards, numerous hand-coloured historiated initials heightened with metallic pigments, directions to binder leaf and errata leaf to volume 1, rubbing to joints, extremities and covers, occasional light spotting, short closed marginal tear to plate 73
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