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 happyGreat 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