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A Glossary of the Construction, Decoration, and Use of Arms and Armor in All Countries and in All Times: Together with Some Closely Related Subjects (Paperback)

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Paperback: 694 pages
Publisher: Dover Publications Inc. (1 Feb 2000)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0486407268
ISBN-13: 978-0486407265
Product Dimensions: 27.6 x 20.6 x 3.2 cm

Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)

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5.0 out of 5 stars This is the "dictionary", 8 Jun 2003

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This book went out of print some years ago and until the relatively recent reprint, it was considered to be like the "Holy Grail" - impossible to find a copy. For those interested in Arms and Armour from around the world, as a reference text it is a must. The author has to be one of (if not the most) respected authorities on the subject.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Incredibly authoritative - totally indispensible, 29 Oct 2001

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This is a must-buy for anyone vaguely interested in the history of weapons. Despite first being published in the 1920s, it's still readable and covers an amazingly wide spectrum of weapons and armour with full descriptions on the use of each.

Brimming with text and photographs, the book is a real heavyweight - this is one of very few books in this field where the high price is worth every penny. Even at this cost, it felt like a bargain.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Old but Vital, 2 Oct 2007

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This 'glossary' - organised essentially in the same way as a dictionary or encyclopedia - dates back to 1934. The edition I have in front of me has the date 1961 inside the front cover. Moreover very little post 1900 material is featured. Apart from being old the glossary is also imperfect in the sense that much that is new has been discovered in the last hundred years, and the black and white images, certainly in my edition, are of variable quality.

Nevertheless appearances can be highly deceptive, for 'Cameron Stone' is one of the most important and useful books on the subject of arms and armour ever published. Its key value is as an identification tool because, for example, if you are faced with some sort of sword all you have to do is turn to the section on swords. You are then presented with perhaps 30 different general types of sword from around the world and two or three hundred different names of sword types,fittings, and sword associated items. Your search can then be refined further by looking up some of these words in other parts of the book. The bibliography can then suggest other relevant book titles.

The reference can also be worked the other way round. For example you are presented with the name 'Ox tongue' and beyond the fact that this term has some connection with arms and armour have no clue as to meaning. Cameron Stone takes you from Ox Tongue to the French 'Langue de Boeuf' - and from here to the information that this was a name for a form of pole arm current in the sixteenth century !

I have never tried to read Cameron Stone from cover to cover - nobody would - but if you are building a general reference library, or are interested in arms and armour, few volumes will be as useful to you as this one.

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