Arms & Armour of the past 16 Historical ebooks on CD

1.  A record of European armour and arms through seven centuries by  Laking, Guy Francis 5 volumes

A RECORD OF
EUROPEAN ARMOUR
AND ARMS
VOL. I  (1919)  365 pages 

HIS book does not pretend to open up a new road to the student of arms and armour, but it is a faithful record of my observations and notes since boyhood. My evidence confirms the accepted theories of the great scholars who preceded me. Herein I trust hes its interest and value for the reader. I feel, therefore, that my hotnage is first due to the memory of Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick, that pioneer of all who have been learned in the study of the harness of war, and after him I think gratefully of those who followed in his footsteps. My book owes much to their research, although of necessity it covers a wider field, in view of the work of archaeologists during the last forty years.

Volume 2  (1920)   393 pages

Volume 3  (1921?)  407 pages

Volume 4  (1921?)  389 pages

Volume 5  (1922)   413 pages

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2. A treatise on ancient armour and weapons (1786)  283 pages

by Francis Grose

HAVING in the course of my researches into the military antiquities of this country,  in vain sought for some treatise exhibiting a series of authentic  delineations, and descriptions of the different kinds of armour  and weapons used by our ancestors. I conceived that a work of  that kind would not be an unacceptable addition to the
antiquarian and military libraries, and might also be ufeful  to sculptors, painters, and designers, and enable them to avoid  those anachronisms and violations of the coustume, which we too  often meet with in works otherwise excellently performed."

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3.  An illustrated history of arms and armour (1911)  615 pages

by Auguste Demmin

The flamberg, or Swiss flame-sword, must not be mistaken  for the flame-sword intended to be used with both hands,  which was a weapon in use in the sixteenth century.  The two-handed sword (Zweihander), or real espadon,  is no earlier than the fifteenth century. It was the  ordinary weapon of the foot-soldier in Switzerland ;
in Germany its use was confined mainly to the defence  of besieged towns."

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4.  Armour & weapons (1909)  119 pages

by Charles Foulkes

WRITERS on Arms and Armour have approached the subject  from many points of view, but, as all students know, their works are generally so large in size, or, what is more essential, in price, that for many who do not have access to large libraries it is impossible to learn much that is required. Then again, the papers of the Proceedings of the various Antiquarian and Archaeological Societies are in all cases very scattered and, in some cases, unattainable, owing to their being out of print."

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5.  Armour in England from the earliest times to the reign of James the First (1897) 130 pages

by  J. Starkie Gardner

"It is the nature of islands to exhibit some peculiarities in their fauna and flora, and this insularity is no less pronounced in the manners and customs of the human beings inhabiting them. Thus even the stone implements of Britain of remote prehistoric days can readily be distinguished by the expert ; and we have the authority of Sir John Evans for regarding our types of bronze celts and weapons as both peculiar and indigenous."

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6. British and foreign arms & armour (1909)  493 pages

by Charles Henry Ashdown

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 characterised it ; to the third it is a source of delight by the consummate beauty of its form or the exquisite details of its adornment."

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7. Foreign armour in England (1898)  124 pages

by J Starkie Gardner

"A FORMER monograph, Armour in England, treated of weapons and armour made either in this country or connected historically  with English wearers. The more extensive field of foreign armour brought into England by wealthy and enthusiastic collectors  is now embraced. The enthusiasm felt for armour is not surprising ;
 its interest is so many-sided. Not only are collectors fascinated by it, but students of history, artists, and antiquaries."

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8. Handbook of arms and armor, European and oriental, including the William H. Riggs collection (1915)  316 pages

by Bashford Dean

"During the greatest period of the European armorers, say between 1450 and 1530, even a detached piece a shoulder, backplate, gauntlet, or greave had in some degree the merit of a fragment of classical sculpture. Not merely are its lines expressed beautifully, but one feels that it has within it something living."

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9. Handbook of pictorial history arms and armour, antiquities, costumes, customs (1914) 208 pages

by Henry W Donald

"IT has been felt that in the study of English History, to the ordinary student and teacher, there are great difficulties
in the way of consulting the numerous standard and other excellent works, on the subjects dealt with in this volume. Many have not sufficient leisure, and many are unable to make  use of the facilities for study and research offered by our great national and provincial libraries and museums. And, to most, the prohibitive cost of a representative
collection of these standard works is an effectual bar to the acquisition of a personal collection."

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10.  Helmets and body armor in modern warfare (1920) 347 pages

by by Bashford Dean

"The present book aims to consider the virtues and failings of helmets and body armor in modern warfare. To this end it brings together materials collected from all accessible sources;  it shows the kinds of armor which each nation has been using in the Great War, what practical tests they will resist, of what  materials they are made, and what they have done in saving life  and limb."

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11. The Anglo-Saxon weapon names (1906) 296 pages

by May Lansfield Keller

"In making public the following investigation of the
weapon names in Anglo-Saxon, attention should be called
oo the fact that, owing to the frequent use of general terms,
such as waepen, searu etc., applied to equipment and armour,
and to that of the word sweord referring to sword, it has been
deemed advisable not to include all references to the same,
such only having been selected as are of interest either from
an etymological or archaeological standpoint."

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12. The armourer and his craft from the XIth to the XVIth century (1912)  298 pages

by Charles Foulkes

I do not propose, in this work, to consider the history or development of defensive armour, for this has been more or less fully discussed in works which deal with the subject from the historical side of the question. I have rather endeavoured to compile a work which will, in some measure, fill up a gap in the subject, by collecting all the records and references, especially in English documents, which relate to the actual making of armour and the regulations which controlled the Armourer and his Craft."

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