"Book on uniforms of the early 1700s?" Topic

Is there any single volume on the market that provides descriptions/illustrations of uniforms from the early 1700s period? More specifically, I'm looking for uniforms of the War of the Spanish Succession and Great Northern War.

C.S. Grant's "From Pike to Shot" is very good for the WSS but has nothing on the GNW. I think there is an Osprey or two on those combatants.

The old Knoetel, Knoetel and Sieg Uniforms of the World covers the combatants of both those wars in a sketchy fashion. No color plates but lots of B&W drawings.

The GNW is covered (well almost covered) in 2 volumes by a Swedish author. Both excellent works and plenty of info and colour pics. Rather pricey though.

I think the short answer is "No". Cumulatively, there is a lot of information from varied sources, but no one definitive volume for the WSS/GNW years that I'm aware of.

I have a ~300 card set illustrating WSS uniforms which I bought from Siegbert Wagner years ago. I suppose today's equivalent are the excellent Hall CD's, although I don't think they've been offered as one consolidated collection.

Steve

I don't know if they're still available, but Editions Brokaw offered a series of booklets about the WSS and the GNW which complimented EB's 15mm soldiers. Most of the booklets were written and illustrated by Pat Condray. These weren't high-quality publications, as far as their physical quality was concerned. But they were packed with information useful for wargamers. They were very inexpensive.

A couple weeks ago, I noticed that someone here on TMP was getting some respectable bids on Ebay for two or three of these old booklets. So perhaps they indeed are OOP.

You will find most of the titles listed above at On MIlitary Matters:

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Editions Brokaw at the last show I saw pat Condray at had a number of booklets on various armies of the era that you mention.