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THE DEFENSIVE ARMOUR AND THE WEAPONS AND ENGINES OF WAR OF MEDIÆVAL TIMES, AND OF THE “RENAISSANCE.”

Fig. 1.—Transitional Gothic Suit at Munich.

THE DEFENSIVE ARMOUR AND THE WEAPONS AND ENGINES OF WAR OF MEDIÆVAL TIMES, AND OF THE “RENAISSANCE.”

BY
Robert Coltman Clephan,
OF SOUTHDENE TOWER, GATESHEAD.

With 51 Illustrations from Specimens in his own and in other
English Collections, and also from others in some of
the Great Collections of Europe.

London: Walter Scott, Limited,
PATERNOSTER SQUARE.
1900.