BRITISH GUNMAKERS: MESSRS GRIFFIN and TOW AND W. BAILES. 1740-1790. By W. Keith Neal and D.H.L. Back.

1989 1st edition. 4to (220 x 302mm). Pp183. Colour plates, b/w photographs throughout. Blue cloth, gilt vignette to upper board, spine titled in gilt.

"For the authors, the work of Messrs Griffin, Tow and Bailes presents the wonderful characteristics which come alive when one handles their products. With this in mind, it has been their aim to record all that they know of these makers and their work in the belief that the result may help to give others comparable pleasures to those which they enjoy themselves". Chapters include: Introduction; Family trees of Griffin and Tow; Sources of information; Benjamin Griffin; Joseph Griffin; Messrs Griffin and Tow; John Tow; Description of arms; Charles Grierson; William and George Bailes.