A TREATISE ON THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF THE ART OF FENCING, ILLUSTRATED WITH TWELVE HIGHLY FINISHED PLATES, AND CONTINUED BY EASY AND PROGRESSIVE LESSONS, FROM THE SIMPLEST POSITION TO THE MOST COMPLICATED MOVEMENTS

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Paper spine label. Corners worn. Spine chipped at extremities. Upper joint starting to weaken at top but firmly intact. Previous owner's name in a neat hand at top of title-page. This second edition is identical to the first edition published a year before, except for title-page. Clean copy throughout, many leaves unopened at the top. Uncut at free edges. Twelve full-page illustrations after G. Simpson, lithography by Forrester and Morison. Bound with half-title. [xvii, 12 illustrations, 181, blank]. See Thimm 243, Pardoel 2218, CBEL III, p.778, Vigeant 111 (for first edition). OCLC lists 7 libraries worldwide holding this edition, not in ESTC . ABPC lists two copies a auction in the past 33 years. The author was a fencing-master at the Royal Academy in Edinburgh. His father, Joseph, was a famed London fencing master who studied under the French master Danet. (Aylward, "The English Masters of Arms"). Size: Tall Octavo. N° de ref. del artículo 012255

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