Dear Sword and Edged Weapon Collector!
I am in the process of creating a comprehensive bibliography for the serious collector of antique swords and edged weapons. I have listed them alphabetically and they can be viewed in four separate sections – please go to my Home Page and you will find the other sections.
I am a firm believer that building up a collection of books and material devoted to the study of antique swords and edged weapons is essential if you really want to understand and learn about your subject. It is also common sense in that when you buy from an auction, Arms Fair or whatever, you need to have some basic knowledge about what you are buying – that does sound like stating the obvious but there are many newcomers who shell out large amounts of money and take it for granted that the piece is correct and genuine. There is nothing that can replace handling and inspecting the item and I would recommend you doing this as often as possible, but a little investment in books will also pay you back many times over and perhaps save you from making a rash or ill-judged purchase.
I do hope that you find it useful and please let me know if you have any books that you feel should be added or you can supply me with a missing book cover image. I will be regularly updating the bibliography so check back often!
Here are the authors from A – G
William. A. Albaugh
Confederate Edged Weapons
(Broadfoot Publishing Co., 1993).
ISBN-10: 1568372671
ISBN-13: 978-1568372679
P.G.W. Annis
British and American Naval Edged Weapons 1660-1815
(Arms and Armour Press, 1970).
Christian Aries
Armes Blanches Militaires, Français
(Paris, 1967).
J.D. Aylward
The Smallsword in England
(Hutchinson, 1960).
Matthew Balent
Compendium of Armor, Weapons, and Castles
(Palladium Books, 1989).
ISBN-10: 091621138X
ISBN-13: 978-0916211387
Bannerman Catalogue of Military Goods – 1927
(DBI Books,1980).
ISBN-10: 0910676208
ISBN-13: 978-0910676205
Bruce Bazelon
Swords from the Public Collections … Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
(Andrew Mowbray,1987).
ISBN-10: 0917218264
ISBN-13: 978-0917218262
Russell E. Belous
Richard H Bezdek
Swords and Sword Makers of England and Scotland
(Paladin Press, 2003).
ISBN: 0-486-25434-8
Richard H Bezdek
German Swords and Sword Makers. Edged Weapon Makers from the 14th to the 20th Centuries
(Paladin Press, 2000).
ISBN-10: 1581600577
ISBN-13: 978-1581600575
Richard H Bezdek
American Swords and Sword Makers Vol 1
(Paladin Press, 1994).
ISBN-10: 0873647653
ISBN-13: 978-0873647656
Richard H Bezdek
American Swords and Sword Makers Vol 2
(Paladin Press, 1999).
ISBN-10: 158160016X
ISBN-13: 978-1581600162
Howard Blackmore
Hunting Weapons from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century
(Dover Publications Inc.; Dover Ed edition, 2003).
ISBN-10: 0486409619
ISBN-13: 978-0486409610
Claude Blair
European and American Arms
(Literary Licensing, LLC, 2011).
ISBN-10: 125807320X
ISBN-13: 978-1258073206
H.T. Bosanquet
The Naval Officer’s Sword
(H.M.S.O.,1955).
I. Bottomley and A.P. Hopson
Arms and Armor of the Samurai
(Random House USA Paperbacks, 1999).
ISBN-10: 0517103184
ISBN-13: 978-0517103180
Charles Boutell
Arms and Armour in Antiquity and the Middle Ages
(Da Capo Press; New edition 1996, orig. 1907).
ISBN-10: 0938289624
ISBN-13: 978-0938289623
Martin J. Brayley
Bayonets: An Illustrated History
(Park Lane Books, 2012).
ISBN-10: 078582930X
ISBN-13: 978-0785829300
Rodney Hilton Brown
American Polearms 1526-1865
(Flayderman, New Milford, 1967).
Jean Jacques Buigne & Jean Lhoste
Armes Blanches: Symbolisme Inscriptions Manufactures
(Editions Du Portail; 2nd Edition edition,1999).
ISBN-10: 2865510417
ISBN-13: 978-2865510412
Richard F. Burton
The Book of the Sword
(Dover Publications Inc., New York, 1987).
ISBN: 0-486-25434-8
Michele Byam
Arms and Armour
(Eyewitness Books – Dorling Kindersley, 2003).
ISBN-10: 0751364924
ISBN-13: 978-0751364927
Lord Archibald Campbell
Scottish Swords from the Battlefield at Culloden
(Mowbray Co., 1971).
ISBN-10: 0917218043
ISBN-13: 978-0917218040
P. Carrington-Pierce
A Handbook of Court and Hunting Swords 1660-1820
(London, 1937).
Anthony Carter
World Bayonets 1800 to the Present: An Illustrated Reference Guide for Collectors
(Arms & Armour Press, Lionel Leventhal Ltd., 1984).
ISBN-10: 1854093444
ISBN-13: 978-1854093448
Anthony Carter
German Bayonets: Vol. 1 The Models 98/02 and 98/05
(Tharston Press, 1984).
ISBN-10: 0946696020
ISBN-13: 978-0946696024
Anthony Carter
German Bayonets: Vol. 2 The Models 71/84, 69/98, 71/98, 98, KS 98, 1914 and 84/98
(Tharston Press, 1991).
ISBN-10: 094669608X
ISBN-13: 978-0946696086
Anthony Carter
German Bayonets: Vol. 3 The Ersatz, Requisitioned and Captured Bayonets
(Tharston Press, 1992).
ISBN-10: 0946696101
ISBN-13: 978-0946696109
Anthony Carter
German Bayonets: Vol. 4 The Regulation Pattern Sword Bayonets 1860-1900
(Tharston Press, 1994).
ISBN-10: 094669611X
ISBN-13: 978-0946696116
Anthony Carter and John Walter
The Bayonet: A History of Knife & Sword Bayonets 1850-1970
(Arms & Armour Press, Lionel Leventhal Ltd, London, 1974).
Egerton Castle
Schools and Masters of Fence from the Middle Ages to the Eighteenth Century
(London, 1885, reprinted 1910, Dover Publications, 2003).
ISBN-10: 0486428265
ISBN-13: 978-0486428260
Robert Cato
Moro Swords
(Graham Brash Ltd, 1996).
ISBN-10: 9812180591
ISBN-13: 978-9812180599
John Clements
Renaissance Swordsmanship. The Illustrated Use of Rapiers and Cut and Thrust Swords
(Paladin Press,1998).
ISBN-10: 0873649192
ISBN-13: 978-0873649193
John Clements
Medieval Swordsmanship. Illustrated Methods and Techniques
(Paladin Press,1998).
ISBN-10: 1581600046
ISBN-13: 978-1581600049
M.H. Cole
U.S. Military Knives, Bayonets and Machete – Book 3
(Privately Pub., 1979).
Gary M. Cunningham
American Military Bayonets of the 20th Century
(Scott A. Duff Publications, 1997).
ISBN-10: 1888722088
ISBN-13: 978-1888722086
Czerwinski & Dudek
Szabla Zolnierza Polskiego XIX i XX weik’ Sabers of Polish Soldiers, 19th & 20th Centuries
(Warsaw, 1988) (text in Polish).
Hilda Ellis Davidson
The Sword in Anglo-Saxon England
(Boydell Press, 1998).
ISBN-10: 0851157165
ISBN-13: 978-0851157160
Jim Dawson
Swords of Imperial Japan 1868-1945
(Stenger-Scott Publishing Company, 1996).
ISBN-10: 0971912726
ISBN-13: 978-0971912724
I. D. Davidson
Bayonet Markings: A Guide for Collectors
(Private Pub., 1973).
Rollin V. Davis Jr.
U.S. Sword Bayonets 1847-1865: A Compilation of Sword Bayonets Issued to the Services of The United States Prior to and During the Civil War
(Privately Pub., 1982).
Clegg Don Furr
American Swords and Makers’ Marks
(Paragon Agency, 1999).
Bashford Dean
Catalogue of European Arms and Armour
(Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1905).
ISBN-10: 1443791830
ISBN-13: 978-1443791830
Anthony D. Darling
Weapons of the Highland Regiments
(Museum Restoration Service, 1998).
ISBN: 0-919316-33-6
Vladimir Dolinek and Jan Durdik
The Encyclopedia of European Historical Weapons
(Hamlyn, 1993).
ISBN: 0-600-57538-1
Edge and Paddock
Arms and Armor of the Medieval Knight
(Bison Books, 1988).
ISBN-10: 0517644681
ISBN-13: 978-0517644683
Eickhorn Catalog 1908
Exports to US and Europe
(Original publication).
Nick Evangelista
The Encyclopedia of the Sword
(Greenwood Press, 1995).
ISBN: 0-313-27896-2
R.D.C. Evans
British Bayonet Letters Patent 1721-1961
(Privately Pub., 1991).
ISBN-10: 0951797204
ISBN-13: 978-0951797204
Charles Ffoulkes
The Armourer and His Craft
(Dover Publications Inc.; Facsimile of 1912 edition, 2003).
ISBN-10: 0486258513
ISBN-13: 978-0486258515
Charles ffoulkes and E. C. Hopkinson
Sword, Lance and Bayonet
(Arms and Armour Press, 1967).
Stephen Fliegel
Arms and Armor: The Cleveland Museum of Art
(ABRAMS, 2008).
ISBN-10: 0940717921
ISBN-13: 978-0940717923
James D Forman
The Scottish Dirk
(Museum Restoration Service, 1993).
Richard Fuller and Ron Gregory
Military Swords of Japan 1868-1945
(Arms and Armour, 1997).
General Washington’s Swords and Campaign Equipment
(The Mt. Vernon Ladies Association – privately published, 1948).
William Gilkerson
Boarders Away. With Steel, Naval Edged Weapons and Polearms 1626 – 1826
(Andrew Mowbray Publishing, 1991).
ISBN: 0-917218-50-7
Erik Goldstein
The Bayonet in New France 1665-1760. Historical Arms Series No. 35
(Museum Restoration Service,1997).
ISBN-10: 0919316352
ISBN-13: 978-0919316355
Erik Goldstein
The Socket Bayonet in the British Army 1687-1783
(Andrew Mowbray Publishers, 2001).
ISBN-10: 0917218957
ISBN-13: 978-0917218958
Carol Belanger Grafton
Arms and Armor: a Pictorial Archive from Nineteenth Century Sources
(Dover Publications, 1995).
ISBN-10: 0486285618
ISBN-13: 978-0486285610
Stephen Grancsay
Catalogue of Armor: The John Woodman Higgins Armory
(David Press Inc.,1969).
D S H Gyngell
Armourer’s Marks
(Cambridge University Press, New York, 1963).
