Marrin's Bookshop

Item Description

4to. 11.5 x 8.5 inches. 96 pp. text in double columns. Bound in original light brown cloth, gilt, in unclipped pictorial dust wrapper with sunned spine. Some edge sunning of boards, but otherwise a very good copy. Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white, including facsimiles. Vignette half title and double vignette title pages. Pictorial endpapers. Well illustrated historical account of firearms and a guide to gun collecting. By Frederick Wilkinson (b.1922), President of the Arms and Armour Society.