THE ARMOURER AND HIS CRAFT

UNIFORM WITH THIS VOLUME

PASTE By A. Beresford Ryley

VENUS AT THE FORGE OF VULCAN. JAN BRUEGHEL AND HENDRICK VAN BALEN. CIRCA 1600 KAISER FRIEDRICH MUSEUM, BERLIN

THE ARMOURER AND HIS CRAFT

FROM THE XIth TO THE XVIth CENTURY

By CHARLES FFOULKES, B.Litt.Oxon.

WITH SIXTY-NINE DIAGRAMS IN THE TEXT AND THIRTY-TWO PLATES

METHUEN & CO. LTD. 36 ESSEX STREET W.C. LONDON

First Published in 1912

Printed in Great Britain

TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

THE VISCOUNT DILLON, Hon. M.A. Oxon.

V.P.S.A., Etc. Etc.

CURATOR OF THE TOWER ARMOURIES