Arms and Armor

A Pictorial Archive from Nineteenth-Century Sources

Carol Belanger Grafton

• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN: 9780486285610
• eBook ISBN: 9780486319940
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Graphic Design
• Index: History

Over thousands of years, man has developed an enormous 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.
Choose from a rich trove of over 750 illustrations compiled from rare nineteenth-century sources. Included are detailed, high-quality depictions — arranged chronologically 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 other 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.

German (17th-Century).

ARMS AND ARMOR

A PICTORIAL ARCHIVE FROM NINETEENTH-CENTURY SOURCES

SELECTED & ARRANGED BY

Carol Belanger Grafton

DOVER PUBLICATIONS, INC.

NEW YORK

Copyright

Copyright © 1995 by Dover Publications, Inc.

All rights reserved.

Bibliographical Note

Arms and Armor: A Pictorial Archive from Nineteenth-Century Sources is a new work, first published by Dover Publications, Inc., in 1995.

This book belongs to the Dover Pictorial Archive Series. You may use the designs and illustrations for graphics and crafts applications, free and without special permission, provided that you include no more than ten in the same publication or project. For permission for additional use, please email the Permissions Department at [email protected] or write to Dover Publications, Inc., 31 East 2nd Street, Mineola, New York 11501.

However, resale, licensing, republication, reproduction or distribution of any illustration by any other graphic service, whether it be in a book or in any other design resource, is strictly prohibited.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Arms and armor : a pictorial archive from nineteenth-century sources / selected and arranged by Carol Belanger Grafton.

p. cm. — (Dover pictorial archive series)

ISBN-13: 978-0-486-28561-0 (pbk.)

ISBN-10: 0-486-28561-8 (pbk.)

1. Armor—History—Pictorial works. 2. Weapons—History—Pictorial works.

I. Grafton, Carol Belanger. II. Series.

U800.A76 1995

623.4′41—dc20

95-16757

CIP

Manufactured in the United States by Courier Corporation
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PUBLISHER’S NOTE

For better or worse, warfare is one of mankind’s defining tendencies. Coercion by organized violence has played 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 has 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.

Greek, Roman and Assyrian.

Greek and Roman.

Assyrian, Greek, Etruscan, Roman and Gallic.

Gallic and Assyrian.

Gallic.

English (8th-century), Frankish (9th-century), unspecified (9th- and 10th-century) and Gallic.

French (11th-century) and unspecified (10th-century).

French (11th-century) and unspecified (10th- and 11th-century).

English, various periods.

English (ca. 12th-century), French (12th-century) and unspecified.

German and unspecified (12th-century) and French (12th- and 13th-century).

French and English (13th-century) and unspecified.

French (13th-century).

French (13th-century).

English, French and German (13th-century).

French (13th- and l4th-century).

French (13th- and l4th-century).

French (13th- and l4th-century).

French and English (l4th-century).

French, English and German (l4th-century).

French and English (l4th-century)

English, French and Spanish (14th-century).

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Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Back Cover