Swords and Daggers : An Illustrated Handbook

This handbook provides black-and-white drawings of 242 swords and daggers formerly used for hand-to-hand combat in Europe, and recounts the history and characteristics of the two-handed sword, rapier, estoc, broadsword, sabre, falchion, and cut and thrust weapon.

The Dover reprint is an unabridged republications of the work originally published in