Each copy is signed by Chris with an original ink & watercolor drawing of a sword!

From the artist:

A handsome hardcover collection of 130 monotoned watercolor drawings from the arms holdings in museums that Chris visited in 2023 and 2024, including the Royal Armories in Leeds, the British Museum in London, the Imperial Armory at the Weltmuseum in Vienna, the Styrian armory in Graz, the Musee d'Armee in Paris, the Cleveland Museum of Art, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

With annotations and with an introduction by beloved fantasy author Sebastian de Castell (the Greatcoats and Spellslinger series).

Chris Schweizer is a three-time Eisner Award-nominated cartoonist, writer, concept artist, and Sunday Times best-selling illustrator who lives in rural Kentucky with his wife and daughter. His books include the series The Crogan Adventures, The Creeps, among others. His books have been nominated for YALSA and CYBILS awards.

Chris has been, among other things, a college professor, a hotel manager, a movie theater projectionist, a guard at mental hospital, a martial arts instructor, a set builder, a church music leader, a process server, a life-drawing model, a bartender, a car wash attendant, a bagboy, a delivery boy, a choirboy, a lawn boy, a sixth-grade social studies teacher, a janitor, a speakeasy proprietor, a process server, a video store clerk, a field hand, a deck hand, a puppeteer for a children's television show, a muralist, a kickboxer, and a line worker at a pancake mix factory. But now he makes comics, and he likes that job best.

Publishers and clients include Scholastic, Abrams/Amulet, Macmillan/First Second, Little, Brown, and Co, DC, Image, Dark Horse, Lerner, Boom Studios, Dynamite, Oni Press, Netflix, Dreamworks, and Nickelodeon.