The Illustrated World Encyclopedia of Knives, Swords, Spears & Daggers: Through History in Over 1500 Photographs

Beautiful book. Excellent photos and clear and well resourced text. Great gift for those interested in weaponry and history.

Lots of images and simple text

Great book beautiful pictures just the right amount of tex very happy Great book very pleased would recommend

This is a good book to dip into. There are numerous illustrations & photos. It is well organised into categorised directories & has quite a lot of good, if brief, articles about the history & deveopment of edged weapons. If you need information about the craft side of cutting blades eg. Puukkos or similar then you'll need to look elsewhere. This a great book for leisurely browsing that you'll keep on returning to - recommended.

Perfect gift full of great info and great pictures for the man mad about swords, knives and the like.

Informative generalised book with good basic info and pictures

Bought as a reference book to make replicasp and has real photos in instead of drawings like many other books have

I bought this for my dad's Christmas present .. he is an antiques dealer and even he found this book interesting I was surprised

Fantastic book full of photographs with an incredible quality. The book is in itself a fantastic visual reference, if you are interested in detailed info, this is not for you. However, with every chapter you have a little introduction about the type of weapons and miscelaneous or historic information. The quality of the bookbinding and the pages, are just perfect. This is a very valuable book of that kind of books where you want to have in your bookshelve.

My husband was happy to receive this book as he likes to make historically acurate knives. This book was perfect with the illustrations and descriptions of each in every era.

My son reads this in bed.

das Buch ist logisch gegliedert ( wie bei den meisten englischen Dokumentationen ). Die hunderte Abbildungen sind sehr hochwertig gedruckt. Die Beschreibungen sind knapp und teilweise etwas andere Kategorisierungen als nach nach Oakeshott oder Seifert. Ist also eher ein netter Überblick, kein Standardwerk wie ein Seifert. Der Schwerpunkt liegt auf Dolchen und Säbeln, Stangenwaffen und Schwerter kommen leider nur sehr kurz weg. Aber ein schönes Buch mit tollen Bildern und für den Druck sehr preiswert.

Excelente obra de referência.