Charles John ffoulkes works on archive.org

salve,
Again I would like to share with you a splendid page from the greatest free book depository, i.e.,archive.org   .

This time the books were written by one of the early British scholars on the arms and amour - Charles John ffoulkes - his bio   royalarmouries charles john ffoulkes .
We have four books worth perusing, full of period drawings, paintings, photos and actual museum objects:
1. The armourer and his craft from the XIth to the XVIth century (1912)  armourer his craft
2.Armour & weapons (1909) armour weapons
3. Inventory and survey of the armouries of the Tower of London (1916) vol 1
archive.org inventory survey Tower1
4.Inventory and survey of the armouries of the Tower of London (1916) vol 2
.archive.org inventory survey tower2    
enjoy reading nad looking  :)

my own photo of the  XVI century horse armour from the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art.  Amazing and fearsome curb bit as a part of this horse armour!