MICHEL PÉTARD - SWORDS AND BLADES, complete collection in three volumes. 30525

PÉTARD MICHEL - SWORDS AND SABERS, complete collection in three volumes. 30525

Complete set of the 3 volumes on mounted troops and infantry (volumes 1 and 2 are out of print).

The reference work on French edged weapons from Louis XIV to the present day by the specialist in the field. The culmination of many years of research, the result of scholarly confrontation between object and document, here is finally the work that everyone has been waiting for, an essential tool of knowledge and identification now within reach of all, whether novice or initiated, enthusiasts of French military edged weapons. This rich catalog inventories, in a comprehensive and commented illustrated sequence, all models of weapons as well as variants and contemporary fantasies, put into service in the French armies from Louis XIV to the present day. The chronological method favors an accessible use by everyone, with its numerous color plates accompanied by descriptive and historical notes, its synoptic tables organized by specialties, its morphological series, to which are added sets of punches from manufacturing or private centers, with a very comprehensive glossary of art terms. We also find dissected plates, a complete inventory of scabbards and blades then in use, information completely unprecedented to this day.
Finally, photographs provide the reader with visual information, complementary to the graphic indication. Michel Pétard has specially reserved for this edition a multitude of unpublished information, spectacular contributions on identifications of sabers and corrected datings thanks to numerous archives discovered since the Ariès notebooks. In addition, the author has uncompromisingly excluded the numerous fakes and copies that can deceive the reader, unfortunately repeated in many works. The illustrated plates allow for a simple and quick identification of a weapon, while having access to the most precise and accurate information available on this subject. An essential work for every enthusiast.
Bertrand Malvaux Edition du Canonnier 1999.
667 pages, including more than 300 color pages, 150g coated paper.
Books composed of color plates, color photographs, black and white plates on blades and punches, as well as color and line drawings of characters.
Format 21 x 29.7 cm.
Cover in 30/10 cardboard fully covered in faux leather. Karines endpapers. Hot stamping on spine and cover title with a vignette illustration glued in the recess.
Headband and bookmark. In French.

New condition. Second-hand books.