Angelo (Domenico) The School of Fencing

Angelo (Domenico)

The School of Fencing, with a General Explanation of the Principal Attitudes and Positions Peculiar to the Art,

32 plates (only, of 44), one with later hand-colouring, plates with partial ‘Russell & Co.’ or ‘Whatman 1794’ watermarks, numerous plates trimmed to fore edge or at foot with loss to some plate numbers, some spotting and offsetting, [ESTC T143107], later half cloth, marbled edges, oblong 8vo, n.p., 1787; Novati (Francesco) editor, Flos duellatorum in armis, sine armis, equester, pedester: Il Fior di Battiglia…, facsimile of the work of 1410 by the Fiore dei Liberi fencing master, some spotting, publisher’s cloth gilt, Bergamo, 1902; Gelli (Jacopo) L'Arte dell'Armi in Italia, 224 illustrations, Collezione di Monografie Illustrata. Serie Speciale, n. 1, publisher’s leather-covered stiff wrappers, gilt, splitting and some loss to spine, original printed slipcase, repair to spine, 1906 (3)

Provenance: R. A. Lidstone, alias Charles Alexis, was “the outstanding authority in the country on the history of fencing” - Roy Goodall, obituary of Lidstone in the journal of the British Academy of Fencing (1969).