The Lore of Arms - William Reid" /> <meta name="description" content="The Lore of Arms, the first major attempt to draw together the intricate strands which make up the history of the armor and weapons of war and the chase, by William Reid, Director of the National Army Museum, London, since 1970. He has spent two decades studying his material in the arms collections of more than twenty countries. The painstakingly accurate art work will make this a standard work for many years to come." /> <style type="text/css">  </style> <script type="text/javascript">  </script> </head> <body> <table width="778" align="center" border="2" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2"> <tr> <td width="100%"><div align="center"><a href="../index.html"><img src="../banner_750.png" title="Click anywhere on this banner to go to camberpete's home page !" alt="Click anywhere on this banner to go to camberpete's home page !" width="756" height="60" /></a></div></td> </tr> <tr bgcolor="#0726AE"> <td><div align="center"> <div align="center"><span class="style31">Miscellaneous and non-naval books.<br /> </span><span class="style1"> <input type="button" value="Back" onclick="history.go(-1);return true;" /> </span></div> </div></td> </tr> <tr> <td><table width="100%" border="2" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2"> <tr> <td width="184" height="256"><div align="center"><a href="#large_images"><img src="../extra_images_new/the_lore_of_arms_min.jpg" title="Click to go to Larger images." alt="Click to go to Larger images." width="180" height="250" /></a></div></td> <td width="320" ><div align="center"> <p align="center"><span class="style9 style8 style29"><strong><strong>THE LORE OF ARMS</strong></strong></span><span class="style8 style9 style12"><br /> <span class="style1">by</span><br /> <span class="style4"><span class="style26">WILLIAM REID</span></span></span></p> <p align="center"><strong><span class="style4">1976, This edition published byPurnell Book Services Limited Abingdon</span></strong><span class="style4"></span><br /> <br /> <span class="style4">280 pages 280mm. x 335mm. x 36mm. Weight unwrapped 1.96 kilo.<br /> <br /> </span><span class="style1"> <input type="button" value="Back" onclick="history.go(-1);return true;" /> </span></p> </div> <div align="center"></div></td> <td width="230"><p align="center" class="style1"><span class="style32"><span class="style7">A large heavy black cloth bound book with silver lettering to spine in at least VERY GOOD PLUS condition with the slightest bumping to top of spine. No inscriptions. Page block is immaculate - clean, tight and bright. In a complete VERY GOOD PLUS dust wrapper with some sunning just visable around the spine area.</span></span></p> <p align="center">£8.00 +<a href="#postcharges" class="style48"> postage</a></p></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td><p><span class="style3">Jacket flap blurbs</span></p> <p class="style26">THE LORE OF ARMS by William Reid</p> <p> a companion volume to <strong><em><a href="the_lore_of_ships.html">The Lore of Ships</a></em></strong></p> <p>THE LORE OF ARMS is the first major attempt to draw together the intricate strands which make up the history of the armor and weapons of war and the chase. The absorbing text and the painstakingly accurate art work will make this a standard work for many years to come.</p> <p> What were the weapons of the Greeks? What was their armor made of? What is a flail, a falchion, a glaive? How were elephants employed in battle? What weapons decided the battles of Marathon, Crecy and Bannockburn? What was the outstanding repeating rifle of the American Civil War? The scope of THE LORE OF ARMS is very wide indeed; the answers to these questions and to many more are given within its 280 pages and over 800 illustrations.</p> <p> The text is by William Reid, Director of the National Army Museum, London, since 1970. He has spent two decades studying his material in the arms collections of more than twenty countries.</p> <p> THE LORE OF ARMS illustrates the evolution of man's hunting and fighting weapons from Neolithic axes and Bronze Age swords to the tanks and anti-aircraft guns of the Second World War. Here you will find not only the story of arms.and armor, of great battles, castles and fortifications, but also the author's personal insights into the characters of many of those involved.<br /> </p></td> </tr> <tr> <td><p class="style3">The author</p> <p>William Reid was born in Scotland in 1926. As a child, he learnt to shoot with an airgun, and, by the time he became an infantry officer at the age of nineteen, he was competent with shotgun and rifle. During the following three years, he fired almost every type of pistol and rifle, and most of the machine guns, used during the Second World War. When he returned to Scotland after foreign service, contact with the collections in the Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum widened his interests to include early armor and arms, with special emphasis on the history of the bow and the crossbow.</p> <p> During his thirteen years on the staff of The Armouries of Her Majesty's Tower of London, Mr. Reid contributed many historical articles to American and European books and periodicals. He is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London, Secretary General of the International Association of Museums of Arms and Military History, Honorary Member of the American Society of Arms Collectors, and a member of the Arms and Armour Society and the Society for Army Historical Research.<br /> </p></td> </tr> <tr> <td height="505"><div align="center"> <a name="large_images" id="large_images"></a> <table width="82%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="11%"><img src="../extra_images_new/the_lore_of_arms_dws.jpg" width="77" alt="The spine, if possible, is scanned diagonally so as to capture it in one scan. As the book cannot be laid flat in this position the scanners light often produces glare in the image." title="The spine, if possible, is scanned diagonally so as to capture it in one scan. As the book cannot be laid flat in this position the scanners light often produces glare in the image." height="600" /></td> <td width="70%"><div align="center"><img src="../extra_images_new/the_lore_of_arms.jpg" title="Book is too large to be scanned in one - this is a composite image and often the light scans from the opposite direction for each quarter. The spine, if possible, is scanned diagonally so as to capture it in one scan. As the book cannot be laid flat in this position the scanners light often produces glare in the image." alt="Book is too large to be scanned in one - this is a composite image and often the light scans from the opposite direction for each half. The spine, if possible, is scanned diagonally so as to capture it in one scan. As the book cannot be laid flat in this position the scanners light often produces glare in the image." width="547" height="600" /></div></td> <td width="19%"><img src="../extra_images_new/the_lore_of_arms_spine.jpg" title="The spine, if possible, is scanned diagonally so as to capture it in one scan. As the book cannot be laid flat in this position the scanners light often produces glare in the image." alt="The spine, if possible, is scanned diagonally so as to capture it in one scan. As the book cannot be laid flat in this position the scanners light often produces glare in the image." width="82" height="600" /> </td> </tr> </table> <p><span class="style1"> <input type="button" value="Back" onclick="history.go(-1);return true;" /> </span></p> </div></td> </tr> <tr> <td><div class="picture_holder"><img src="../extra_images_new/the_lore_of_arms_pic1.jpg" width="356" height="201" title="These three images are from the back of the dust wrapper. They show the artwork that, as it covers two pages, measures 53 cm. by 29.5 cm. "alt="These three images are from the back of the dust wrapper. They show the artwork that, as it covers two pages, measures 53 cm. by 29.5 cm. " /></div></td> </tr>  <tr> <td><p><img src="../extra_images_new/the_lore_of_arms_pic2.jpg" width="356" height="201" align=left hspace=25 /></p> <blockquote> <p><br /> Images of the book open show examples of the amount of detail and the full use of colour used in these double page spreads.</p> <p>They are taken from the back of the wrapper. In the book these double page spreads are 52 cm. wide and 29.5 cm. high.</p> </blockquote> </td> </tr> <td><p> <img src= "../extra_images_new/the_lore_of_arms_pic3.jpg" width="356" height="198" align="right" hspace=25 /> </p> <p> </p> <blockquote> <p>Line drawings, with separate colours added by a process of hand lithography, have been used to depict the arms shown in this book so that all the details will stand out clearly. 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