Medieval Arms and Armor: A Pictorial Archive (Dover Pictorial Archive)

Book's condition was as described, just not impressed with the book itself. Simplistic drawing of armor and weapons, little to no description

I'm trying to design medieval-inspired characters, and this works wonders!

My son was into mid evil times

bought this for my nephew who is into ancient weapons, arms etc, he seems to really enjoy it. would buy again.

Great gift

Very good reference book.

Reproducedfrom a book originally published in Germany in 1903, this book contains more than a hundred pages of drawings of weapons, and particularily of armor from about 780 to the mid 1600's. The descriptions that go along with the illustrations are very well done and describe points that should be noted about the illustrations. These have been taken from the original German and specially translated for this edition.Covering such a long period of time, the development of styles of armor and the details of construction. I found the discussion on points like gauntlets, elbow protectors and the like to be more complete than anywhere else I've seen. They are based on drawings of the earliest equipment, burial monuments, and from the fifteenth century through the Thirty Years War on extant examples of plate armor.Very well done.

It is full of detailed drawings of armor and weapons so in case you wish to know what something looks like without having to search all over the place for it, this book is worth it. It does not have a large amount of text explaining the weapons and armor though.

Ce livre présente de très belle gravure en pleine page et permet d'apprécier des harnois allemand du XIV avec de nombreux détails.

Si decisamente pensavo meglio, comunque in questo ambito le informazioni che si trovano nei libri sono sempre un incognita. va bene così.