ARMS&ARMOR

A PICTORIAL ARCHIVE FROM

NINETEENTH-CENTURY SOURCES
SELECTED & ARRANGED BY CARO L BELANGER GRAFTON
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ARMS AND ARMOR
A PICTORIAL ARCHIVE FROM NINETEENTH-CENTURY SOURCES

SELECTED AND ARRANGED BY

Carol Belanger Grafton

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Library of Congreu Catalogirzg-in-Publication Data

Arms and armor: a picrorial archive from nineteenth-century sources 1 selected and
ar ranged by Carol Belanger Grafron.
p. em. - (Dover pictorial archive series)
ISBN 0-486-28561-8 (pbk.)
l. Armor- Hisrory-Picrorial works. 2. Weapons-Hisrory- Picrorial works.
I. Grafron, Carol Belanger. ll. Series.
U800.A 76 1995
623.4'4l-dc20 95-16757
CIP

Manufacrured in the Unired States of America

Dover Publ.icarions, Inc., 3L Easr 2nd Street, Mineola, N.Y. L1501
 PUBLISHER'S NOTE

For better or worse, warfare is one of mankind's defining tendencies.

Coercion by organized violence has p layed a crucial role in human life
since prehistory, and the need for battlefield advantages has provided
a continual impetus to the development of science and technology.
This book contains over 700 illustrations covering the history of
weapons and armor in primarily the preindustrial West from ancient
times until the eighteenth century, with a particular emphasis on
European cultures of the Medieval and Renaissance periods. The
contents are arranged chronologically, and each plate h as a caption
identifying nationality and date of origin, where known. Four plates
of nonspecific decorative illustrations incorporating motifs from the
periods covered are included at the end of the book.
Greek, Roman and Egyptian. 1
2
Greek, Roman and Assyrian.
Greek and Roman. 3
4 Assyrian, Greek, Etruscan, Roman and Gallic.
Gallic and Assyrian. 5
6 Gallic.
English (8th-century), Frankish (9th-century), unspecified (9th- and lOth-century) and Gallic. 7
8 French (11th-century) and unspecified (lOth-century).
F<ench (1 llh~centry) and unspeci(;ed (lOth~ and llth-centry),
9
10 English, various periods.
English (ca. 12th-century), French (12th -century) and unspecified. 11
12 German and unspecified (12th-centttry) and French (12th- and 13th-century).
French and English (13th-century) and unspecified. 13
14 French (13th-century).
French (13th-century). 15
16 English, French and German (13th-century)_
French (13th- and 14th-century). 17
18 French (13th- and 14th-century).
French (13th- and 14th-century). 19
20 French and English (14th -centttry).
 21
French, English and German (14th-century).
22 French and English (14th-century)
English, French and Spanish (14th-century).
23
24 French and unspecified (14th-century). .
French and English (14th-century). 25
 and uns pedfied.
French ( 14th-centtt'ry)
26
French and German (14th-century). 27
28 French and German (14th-century) .
French, Italian, English and German (14th-century). 29
 German, Swiss, Spanish, French and unspecified (15th -century).
30
English, French, German and unspecified (15th-century) . 31
32 Italian (14th- and 15th-century) and French, English and German (15th-century).
Italian (14th- and 15th-century) and English, French, Swiss and unspecified (15th-century) . 33
 I.
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34 German (15th -century) and unspecified.

French, German and Italian (15th -century). 35
36 German, English, French and unspecified (15th -centttrj).
French, German and unspecified (15th -century). 37
38 French, German and Spanish (15th-century).
French, Italian, Spanish and German (15th -century). 39
40 French, Italian, English, German and unspecified (15th -century).
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Italian, English, French and unspecified (15th-century). 41

42 French, English and unspecified (15th -century).
French, English, German and Spanish (15th-century).
43
44 French and German (15th-century).
German, French and unspecified (15th -century). 45
46 English (I 6th-century).
 I.
i I

English and Italian (16th -century). 47

48 Italian, Spanish, Indian, Portuguese and German (16th -century).
Italian, German and unspecified (16th-century). 49
50
English, Spanish and unspecHied (16th-century).
English, French and German (16th-century).
51
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52 German, English and Italian (16th- centt~ry).

Italian, English and German (16th -century). 53
 German and English (16th-century).
54
Italian, ltalo-Spanish and English (16th-century). 55
56 German and unspecified (16th -centttry).
German and English (16th-century). 57
58 English, Indian and German (16th-centr.try).
 59

German, Italian, french and unspecified (I 6tb-cent'1 ).

60 German and unspecified (16th-century).
English and unspecified (1 6th-century). 61
62 English and German {16th -century).
English, Swiss, Spanish and unspecified (16th -century). 63
64 English, German, Russian and Italian (16th -century).
English, German and unspecified (16th-century). 65
66 German, English and Italian (16th -centu-ry).
Spanish, French, English and unspecified (16th -centttry). 67
68 Spanish, English, French and Polish (16th -century).
Polish and unspecified (16th -century). 69
70 English, French, Italian, Spanish and unspecified (16th-century).
Iralian and German (16th-century).
71
72 German, English, Italian and unspecified (16th -century).
German, English, Italian and French (16th-century). 73
 Flemish, F.nglish, Bur"'ese and Italian (16b-century).

74
German, Italian, English and French (16th -century). 75
76 French, German, English and unspecified (16th -century).
Spanish, English, Italian, German and unspecified (16th -century). 77
78 German, English and unspecified (16th -century).
English, French, Spanish and German (16th-century).
79
80 English, Italian and German (16th-century).
Spanish and Italian (16th-century). 81
82 English, Italian, Swiss and Indian (16th -century).
English, French, German and unspecified (16th -century). 83
84 Icalian, German and unspecified (16th-century).
English, French, Italian and German (16th -century). 85
86 German, English, Italian, Spanish and unspecified (16th -century).
Italian, English, Spanish and unspecified (16th -centmy). 87
88
German, Spanish and Italian (16th -century).
Italian, Swiss, German and unspecified (16th -centt1-ry). 89
 German (16th-century).
90
French, English and German (16th-century). 91
92 English, Spanish, French and unspecified (16th-century).
French, Italian, English and unspecified (16th-century). 93
94 English, Italian, French and unspecified (16th-centttry).
English (16th- and 17th-century) and Italian (16th -century). 95
96 English, Spanish, French and unspecified (16th- and 17th-century).
 ''

Hindu, English, Italian and unspecified (16th and 17th-century). 97

 Portuguese and unspecified (16th -century); English, Spanish, Hindu and
98 unspecified (16th- and 17th-century) and Italian (17th -century).
German and English (16th- and 17th-century).
99
100
Italian, English and unspecified (17th-centrtry).
English and unspecified (17th -century). 101
102 English, French, Italian and unspecified (17th -century).
 103
Turkish, Spanish, French and unspecified (17th-century).
104 Italian, English, French and unspecified (17th-century).
German, English, Italian, French and unspecified (17th-century). 105
 English (16th and 17th-century) and Italian, Persian and unspecified (17th-century).

106
Polish, French and Austrian (17th-century). 107
108 Indian and unspecified (17th-century).
Indian (17th-century). 109
110 Indian and unspecified (17th -century).
Indian (17th-century). 111
112 Circassian, Italian, German, French and Scottish (18th -century).
French and Persian (18th-century). 113
 English and Turkish (17th-century) and Malaysian, French, Indian, Persian, German
114 and unspecified (18th-century).
116 U nspecified decorative illustrations.
Unspecified decorative illustrations. 117
ll8 Unspecified decorative illustrations.
Unspecified decorative illustrations. 119
(continued from front flap)

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ARMS&ARMOR A PICTO RI AL A RCHIVE FROM
N I NETEENTH-CENTU RY SO U RCES
SELECTED & ARRANGED BY
CAROL BELANGER GRAFTON
Over thousands of years, man has developed an enormo us variety of offensive and
defensive weapons for use in battle as well as a vast array of armor and other
protective devices. Now artists and illustrators can draw on this extensive archive
for superb copyright-free illustrations of vintage arms, armor and other battlefield
paraphernalia.

C hoose from a rich trove of over 750 illustrations compiled from rare nineteenth-
century sources. Included are detailed, high-quality depictions-arranged chrono-
logically and, to some extent, geographically-of suits of armor, chain mail,
swords, halberds, spears, pikes, lances, crossbows, axes, daggers, helmets, shields,
knives, small arms and a host of o ther implements, along with scenes of battle,
siege, jousts, soldiers, horses and more.

Especially suitable for projects requiring a medieval or old-fashioned flavor, these

illustrations reproduce extremely well. They will fill a myriad of needs for battle-
related graphic art.

Original D over (1995) pubHcation. 758 black-and-white illustrations. Publisher's

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