Since the 15th century, most parts of the human body have been fitted with specialised steel pieces, typically worn over linen or woollen underclothes and attached to the body via leather straps and buckles and points. Mail protected those areas that could not be fitted with plate; for example, the back of the knee. Well-known constituent parts of plate armour include the helm, gauntlets, gorget or 'neckguard', breastplate, and greaves worn on the lower legs.

For the elite, full-body plate armour was custom-made for the individual. Most armour was bought off the shelf and some was modified to fit the wearer. The cost of armour varied considerably with time and place as well as the type of armour, coverage it provided and the cost of decoration.

Each beautifuly illustrated volume provides the reader with a wonderful insight into the design and construction of armour from the earliest times thru to modern weapons and military practices of the 19th century.


This Electronic Library on CD Includes:

:: A Brief Discourse On Hand-Weapons
B Sargeaunt - 74 pages (1908)

:: A Pictorial History of Armour - 680 Illustrations
Henry W. Donald - 208 pages (19xx)

:: A Record Of European Armour And Arms - Vol 1
Sir Guy Francis Laking, Bart. - 365 pages (1920)

:: A Record Of European Armour And Arms - Vol 2
Sir Guy Francis Laking, Bart. - 393 pages (1920)

:: A Record Of European Armour And Arms - Vol 3
Sir Guy Francis Laking, Bart. - 307 pages (1920)

:: A Record Of European Armour And Arms - Vol 4
Sir Guy Francis Laking, Bart. - 389 pages (1920)

:: A Record Of European Armour And Arms - Vol 5
Sir Guy Francis Laking, Bart. - 413 pages (1920)

:: An Illustrated History of Arms & Armour
A Demmin - 591 pages (1877)

:: Ancient Armour & Weapons in Europe
J Hewitt - 419 pages (1855)

:: Ancient Armour And Weapons
Francis Grose - 283 pages (1986)

:: Armour & Weapons
C Ffoulkes - 120 pages (1909)

:: Armour in England
J Starkie Gardner - 130 pages (1897)

:: Armouries of the Tower of London Vol I
J Ffoulkes - 286 pages (1916)

:: Armouries of the Tower of London Vol II
J Ffoulkes - 312 pages (1916)

:: Arms & Armour In Antiquity & Middle Ages
C Boutell - 312 pages (1870)

:: Arts and crafts in the middle ages
Julia De Wolf Addison - 449 pages (1908)

:: British And Foreign Arms And Armour
Charles Henry Ashdown (1909)

:: Educational Charts Arms & Armour
MMA NYC - 26 pages (1917)

:: Foreign Armour in England
J Starkie Gardner (1898)

:: Foreign Armour
J. Starkie Gardner (1898)

:: Handbook of the Vickers Machine Gun
U S Army - 81 pages (1917)

:: Modern Shot Guns
W W Grenner - 255 pages (1891)

:: New Methods of Machine Gun Fire
F v. Merkatz - 59 pages (1916)

:: Notes on Anti Aircraft Guns
U S War Department - 31 pages (1917)

:: Notes on the Use of Machine Guns
U S War Department - 80 pages (1917)

:: Primitive American Armor
W - Hough - 49 pages (1895)

:: Spanish arms and armour, being a historical and descriptive account of the Royal armoury of Madrid
Albert F. Calvert - 488 pages (1907)

:: The Japanese Sword & Its Decoration
H Gunsaulus - 36 pages (1924)

Sample thumbnails taken from the collection.
(Low resolution thumbnails - CD/DVD images are scanned at 300 DPI)

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