Description
BOTH VOLUMES comprise an extensive photographic study of American longrifles made in the colonial period, the Revolutionary period, and the post-Revolutionary years before the Federal Period.
For each of the 139 rifles treated (in the 2 volumes) there are ten or more detailed photographs.
A description of each rifle accompanies the illustrations, and many important dimensions are given.
The text is concerned with the complex subject of the evolution of the baroque and rococo art that adorns it.
VOLUME I: By George Shumway, Hardcover, 352 pages, 800 illustrations, reprinted in 2002.
VOLUME II: By George Shumway, Hardcover, 288 pages, 650 illustrations, reprinted in 2002.
