Blair, Claude. European Armour - circa 1066 to circa 1700. B.T. Batsford Ltd.: London 1979. ISBN 0-7134-0729-8

Burgess, E. Martin. A Reply to Cyril Stanley Smith on Mail-Making Methods. Technology and Culture, I, 2: spring 1960.

Burgess, E. Martin. The Mail Maker's Technique. The Antiquaries Journal Volume XXXIII, Jan.-April 1953. pages 48-55.

Edge, David & Paddock, John Miles. Arms & Armour of the Medieval Knight - An Illustrated History of Weaponry in the Middle Ages. Crescent Books: Avenel New Jersey 1996. ISBN 0-517-10319-2

Ffoulkes, Charles. The Armourer and His Craft from the Xith to the XVIth Century. Dover Publications, Inc.: New York 1988. ISBN 0-486-25851-3

Gnudi, Martha Teach & Smith, Cyril Stanley. The Pirotechnia of Vannoccio Biringuccio : The Classic Sixteenth-Century Treatise on Metals and Metallurgy. Dover Publications, Inc.: New York 1990. ISBN 0-486-26134-4

Hawthorne, John G. & Smith, Cyril Stanley. Theophilus: On Divers Arts - The Foremost Medieval Treatis on Painting, Glassmaking, and Metalwork. Dover Publications, Inc.: New York 1979. ISBN 0-486-23784-2

Hoover, Herbert Clark & Hoover, Lou Henry. Georgius Agricola: De Re Metallica. Dover Publications, Inc.: New York 1950. 0-486-60006-8

Pfaffenbichler, Matthias. Medieval Craftsman ARMOURERS. University of Toronto Press: Toronto, Buffalo 1992. ISBN 0-8020-7732-3

Smith, Cyril Stanley. A History of Metallography - The Development of Ideas on the Structure of Metals before 1890. The University of Chicago Press: Chicago Illinois 1992. ISBN 0-262-69120-5

Smith, Cyril Stanley. A Reply to Mr. Martin Burgess on Mail-Making Methods. Technology and Culture [issue and/or date unknown].

Smith, Cyril Stanley. Methods of Making Chain Mail (14th to 18th Centuries): A Metallographic Note. Technology and Culture, I, 1: winter 1959/60.