IF YOU COLLECT BRITISH SWORDS THEN THIS IS THE BOOK FOR YOU
With over 12,000 full colour images of British swords and comprising 884 pages, this definitive work features infantry swords, cavalry swords, naval swords, smallswords, rapiers, broadswords, hangers, hunting swords, police and prison swords, Scottish basket hilts, naval cutlasses, Napoleonic swords, English Civil War swords, Masonic swords, Gymnasia training swords, experimental swords, civilian and Air Force swords. Each page displays examples of British swords from the last four centuries and includes close-up detail and descriptions.
There are also sections on the history of British sword manufacture, the history of the Wilkinson Sword Company (including the Wilkinson Sword blade serial numbers dating list from 1854), British sword makers and retailers, blade markings and proof marks and a full bibliography.
The book is hard back with hand sewn, satin finish pages.