Landscape 4to 2 plates of the factory followed by 42 plates showing the guns with descriptive text, 2 unnumbered plates at the end showing, Mechanisms of the Automatic Q.F. Guns and Mechanism of the Q.F. Guns. Publishers’ blue cloth with gilt title to the upper cover rubbing to the head and tail of the spine and corners, a very good copy. From the introduction” Guns on the Maxim Nordenfelt system have made so much progress within the last few years, that the want of a Book illustrative of the various types of the system.” The Maxim-Nordenfelt Guns and Ammunition Company was the result of a takeover by Hiram Maxim Thorsten Nordenfelts, Nordenfelt Guns and Ammunition Company in 1888. It was the subject of one of history's most famous court cases in 1894, Nordenfelt v Maxim, Nordenfelt Guns and Ammunition Co. which Nordenfelt successfully claimed that the takeover condition preventing him from competing with Maxim for 25 years "in any way" was an unreasonable restraint of trade, but failed to overturn the main condition preventing Nordenfelt from competing with Maxim in the guns and ammunition trade for 25 years. The company became part of the Barrow Shipbuilding Company, which was taken over by Vickers, Sons and Company in 1897 to form Vickers. Sons & Maxim. Only one copy located in UK libraries at the National Maritime Museum.