Description
Condition: Very Good – 303 Pages
This Volume II of a two volume set is an extensive photographic study of American longrifles made in the pre-Revolutionary period. This volume contains 650 black and white pictures plus drawings. With over ten pictures of each rifle, a description and critical measurements, this is a “must have” for those studying the early baroque and rococo art and replicating a pre-Revolutionary longrifle.
Chapters are as follows:
- Lehigh to Berks and Lebanon
- York County
- Rifles of Uncertain Origin
- Rifles of the Southern Colonies
- Rifles & Guns with Military Connections
- New England
- Hudson Valley Influences
- When was the First American Rifle Made, Where was It Made and Who made It?
- Lock, Stock & Barrel plus Furniture, or The Parts of a Rifle & Where They Came From in the Eighteenth Century
- Art Forms on the Eighteenth Century American Rifle
Printed in 1980 – First Edition – 303 pages – Hard bound with dust cover. Condition: Very Good.
