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Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: Pre-owned
VERY INFORMATIVE.
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: Pre-owned
This book has good material for reference and the photos are some of the best I have seen in sword books. The only drawback I can see is the numbers of weapons pictured within the different genres of blades. I would like to see an edition with 3-4 times the number of examples.
A Collectors Guide to Swords, Daggers, and Cutlasses was a decent book but still not what im looking for as a reference guide, this book had good but little information that i was looking for...
The book in itself have an interesting size and pictures are pretty representative although not impressive nor uncommon. The author seems to have made this book by following an alphabetical order which tends to give it a rather chaotic appearance. Dates and historical events are accurates but this is as far as accuracy goes. Some swords are here called by their misnomer and no efforts seem to have been made by the author to go further in his research, as in the case of the so called -Bastard sword- which is actually a misnomer from the 19th century and is here depicted as its contemporary name!! Some swords descriptions are litterally out of the picture as in the case of the broadsword (where it is stated that wide bladed thrusting sword were uncommon for cavalry uses, while it was not) and the Katzbalger which description dramatically contradict many other authorities on the subject. As a whole the only real worth of this book are the pictures of mint condition weapons where (at least) description finally match reality.Read full review
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