Oriental Armour (Arms and Armour series)

First edition, first printing. xii, 258pp. Black and white plate illustrations and line drawings etc in etc. Ex lending library, with usual library markings. In brown cloth boards (cloth a little faded on exposed edges, text block edges slightly soiled). Internally neat, clean, bright and tight barring library markings. In its original dust jacket, slightly soiled and a little bumped at spine tips, protected in a Bordart-style sleeve (sleeve is creased around inner front flap of dust jacket). 8vo. A survey of the development of military equipment in the principal countries of the Orient, with particular emphasis on the origins of their fashions and their influence over the armour of other countries, from ancient times to the point at which it fell out of use which, in some cases, was less than 150 years ago.