British Artillery Ammunition – Volume 3, Quick Fire

[Burney Davis]

I have recently received my copy of David Ibbetson’s new book on British Quick Fire Ammunition. It is a monster reference volume of 961 pages on the subject. It is the third in his series on Ammunition and complements the others issued previously.

Some will say that it is expensive, but it took two years to research and produce, and I think is an absolute must for the serious collector. Most of the information is not available anywhere else and only 50 copies have been printed. The pictures below contain an index and a taster of what’s inside.
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[Bonnex]

I concur with Burney Davis on this fine book. The first thing that you will notice when you unwrap your copy is the quality of the printing and binding. The choice of paper is superb and does justice to the large number of colour plates in the volume. It is true that this book is must for the serious collector but it doesn't stop there. Men and women whose business is ammunition including those involved in curatorial, teaching, retail and disposal will find the volume invaluable.

But in my view the group to whom this volume is so essential is the growing band of researchers (and yes, that may also be collectors, conflict archaeologists or historians etc). I get a fair few enquiries each year on ammunition subjects and it becomes quite plain that the lack of availability of Treatises of Ammunition, as well as those on Ordnance and Carriages, and the lack of understanding about, and the availability of, Lists of Changes limits the researcher, particularly the younger one. What this book does very well is to provide the information hitherto held in the dozen or so treatises and verbatim extracts of the all-important 'Paragraphs' from Lists of Changes.

It is a fine book and I commend it to you.

 

[Eggburt1969]

Silly question, but where can one purchase this, and the previous two volumes?

 

[doppz92]

Not at all silly, since I just messaged Burney Davis with the same question, and I am happy to see I am not the only one who's not reading the small prints... All explained on the index picture in the post. Thanks, I feel better now. :bigsmile:

 

[ydnum303]

I also thoroughly agree with the above comments of both Bonnex and Burney Davis. This is an excellent book, which has kept me busy the last week in looking through it. It is absolutely fascinating, with much information that is very difficult to find elsewhere, unless one has access to the original documents, which are mostly in the archives of specialist museums, libraries, and military establishments.
I cannot recommend this book highly enough.

Roger.

 

[seppe]

Dear all ,
as with all well collectables a decent library is the base of each collection .
Why hesitating for buying a quality work like this , probably the next purchase on a flee market or
carboot sale will pay your investment back !!!
thx to all the autors that are doing this job to easy it for us collecting !!!
keep going on .
Thx again !
Seppe.

 

[magpie]

As I'm pretty sure I won't be doing much this year thanks to our unwanted global friend I decided to invest in David's books and I've just received my copies of volumes 1,2 and 3 along with early artillery fuses, I've now just got to find time to read them all, David has a few copies left and Id recomend anyone to get them as they are just full from front to back with information.

Andy.

 

[doppz92]

I agree, a few days ago I got my copies of volume 1,2 and 3 as well as the early artillery fuzes and it really is fantastic work and a unique source of knowledge. Probably will be reimbursed with the next purchase or two as seppe said, but even if it wasn't I don't regret spending any penny of it!
Frank