Phaidon Guide to Antique Weapons and Armour

by Robert Wilkinson-Latham

An easy-to-read book that gives the full terminology and presents all materials in page-long sections accompanied with full-color illustrations on the facing page. The book covers a wealth of materials and is an outstanding priming work on the subject.

256 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1984

Reviews

[Ryan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Love this book out of nostalgia more than anything. My friends and I used to check out this book from my jr. high school library so that we would have good visual references for D&D. Later I stole it and still possess it over 30 years later. Now I don't recommend stealing library books, but I do recommend beautiful photo references of hundreds of very old weapons. If you're into that kind of thing. I still use it to draw from now, but don't have any of those old friends to play D&D with anymore.

[Robert Spencer · Rating 4 out of 5]

A useful reference work for anyone collecting weapons or designing costumes and illustrations.

[Lura]

How do you make such an interesting topic boring? By not listing developments in weapons and armor side-by-side. By not showing how one influenced the other.

Also by sounding like the most boring history professor imaginable (even worse than the ghost teacher from Harry Potter).

In conclusion: interesting subject, but boring presentation.

DNF

[B.W. Johnson · Rating 4 out of 5]

Lots of detail and good illustrations.