London: Chatto and Windus, 1884. First edition. 4to. xxxix, (i), 299 pp. With numerous in-text illustrations. Publisher's grey pictorial cloth, stamped in brown and in gilt, soiling and rubbing to boards, spine faded; black endpapers; scattered light toning to text leaves; light spotting to leaves at front and rear. Penzer, pp. 107-108

First edition of Burton's classic work on the edged sword, one of his scarcer works.