Excerpt from An Illustrated History of Arms and Armour: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time In the arsenal Of Zurich all the bossed breastplates of fluted armour are rated as cuirasses for women, as though the female bosom occupied the lower portion Of the chest About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.