FENCING FAMILIARIZED: Or, A NEW TREATISE on the ART OF SWORD PLAY. Illustrated by Elegant Engravings, Representing all the different Attitudes on which the Principles and Grace of the Art depend.. This item is unavailable.FENCING FAMILIARIZED: Or, A NEW TREATISE on the ART OF SWORD PLAY. Illustrated by Elegant Engravings, Representing all the different Attitudes on which the Principles and Grace of the Art depend.

TITLE CONTINUED: Painted from Life, and executed in a most elegant and masterly Manner. FRENCH TITLE: L'Art des Armes Simplifie, ou Nouveau Traite sur la Maniere de se servir de l'Epee: Enrichi de Figures en Taille Douce, Representant toutes les differentes Attitudes d'ou dependent les Principes et la Grace de cet Art; peintes d'apres Nature; Executees superieurement et de la Maniere la plus elegante. FIRST EDITION in 2 parts, 1771. With parallel English and French text. The plates and the advertisement on verso of last page are dated 1771, no date on title pages. 8vo approximately 190 x 125 mm, 8 x 5 inches, 9 plates, 8 folding, including frontispiece, pages: [4], v-xlix, [2], 3-157, 160-196, [1], jump in pagination is in all copies, bound in quarter speckled calf, gilt lettered label and gilt rules between raised bands to spine, marbled boards, original endpapers retained. Pale age-browning to title pages and frontispiece, 1 plate has a longish closed tear running into image with old repair on blank side, no loss (see image), tiny nick to top edge of 5 leaves in Introduction, last 3 leaves have pale age-browning to outer edges, light offsetting from plates to facing pages, occasional pale foxing to margins of text and plates. According to ESTC it lacks the plate list and 1 advert leaf, (though 4 copies seen were the same as ours), otherwise a very good copy. See: Carl A. Thimm, A Complete Bibliography of Fencing and Duelling, page 211; ESTC T135606. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.…