Condition: Dust jacket shows chipping, especially at top of spine. The inside fold of the dust jacket is creased and the price has been cut off. The text block is undamaged and the the pages are complete and unmarked. This is the Herbert Jenkins publication which is reflected in the price. Description: THE REVOLVER 1818-1865 is the full story of our early revolving arms and the steps by which they became the side-arms of multitudes. It is also a story of men who brought this about Samuel Colt, Robert Adams, William Tranter and the Webley Brothers, to mention but a few manufacturers. Much that is written in this book about them has never before been made available to collectors. Other names may now be almost unknown, and their bearers' weapons forgotten, but Americans, Englishmen, Frenchmen, Irishmen and Scotsmen all contributed to the history unfolded in these pages and their contribution is duly weighed. As to the weapons, the plates illustrate more than sixty flintlock arms, pepp