Fencing

Edinburgh: James Watson. G: in good condition. Rebacked with remains of original spine. New eps. Cloth reinforcements to inner hinges. Some light foxing. Some extinct worming. Occasional ink underlining. 1707. First Edition. Brown hardback leather cover. 210mm x 170mm (8" x 7"). xviii, 288pp + plates. 2 fold-out plates: 'Scheme of Laws for Fencing Schools and Publick Assaulting' & 'New Method of Fencing'. A very early treatise on fencing and sword-play. .

London: Faber & Faber Ltd. G : in Good condition with torn and soiled dust jacket. Loss to the dust jacket along spine and edges. Endpapers browned. 1951. First Edition. Blue hardback cloth cover. 220mm x 140mm (9" x 6"). 270pp. B/w plates; additional line drawings. .

University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1981. First. Hardcover. Fine copy in a crisp jacking lightly rubbed on back, in archival mylar. Personal owner name stamp to front free endpaper./Near fine(+). 124 pages: illustrations ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references (pages 113-116) and index. "Maxwell R. Garret (1921-2009), an American fencer and educator, distinguished himself both as a competitor and coach in the field of fencing. After an All-American fencing career at Yale... Read more about this item

Macmillan, 2002. 0333901924. 1st edn. 8vo. Original gilt lettered brown cloth (Fine), dustwrapper (Fine in protective cover, not price clipped). Pp. xxiv + 519, illus with b&w photos (no inscriptions).

Good copy of the first English octavo edition with plates by Thomas Rowlandson of this classic fencing manual.Complete with 47 engraved plates of classic fencing positions on 44 sheets. The original 1787 edition, the first to include plates redrawn and engraved by Thomas Rowlandson. All plates dated 1783.The first octavo edition of Domenico Angelo's renowned guide to swordsmanship, first published in folio with illustrations by James Gwin in 1763. Edited by Domenico's son and fencing master Henry Charles... Read more about this item

Rare first edition of this 17th century French military exercise book covering mostly musket drills, but also pike, sword and grenade. L'art militaire françois, pour l'infanterie. Contenant l'exercise et le maniement des armes, tant des officiers que de soldats, réprésenté par des figures en taille-douce dessinées d'après nature.
Frontispiece, iv, 174 (of 178), and 83 (of 85) engraved copperplates, each captioned within the plate. Missing title page, a page of the "epistre," pages 87-90 with plates... Read more about this item

London: Samuel Leigh, 1822. First Edition. 12mo, pp. xxxii, 240, 10. Bound in old boards, paper label, uncut, joints broken (covers separate), some minor foxing. A nice clean copy. Thimm 244. Rolando was a fencing master. Forsyth was one of his students who got his own instruction from him "during a long residence in France." Forsyth compares fencing schools in France with facilities in England, where "fencing has been comparatively neglected, and that spirit of liberality which characterises foreign... Read more about this item