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Lot 32
Sale 1241 - Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, including Americana
Nov 10, 2023
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[ROWORTH, Charles]. The Art of Defence on Foot with the Broad Sword and Sabre, Uniting the Scotch and Austrian Methods into One Regular System. To Which are Added Remarks on the Spadroon. London: for T. Egerton, 1798.
8vo (210 x 125 mm). 10 engraved plates (most folding). (Lacking large engraved folding table.) Modern cloth.
FIRST EDITION, with the "Inside Guard 2nd Position" plate and description present. The second edition, published in the same year, replaced the plate and description with the half circle or spadroon guard. The Art of Defence on Foot is the oldest known British manual intended to teach purely military swordsmanship on foot, and teaches a universal system of swordsmanship including the Broad Sword, Sabre, Spadroon and Hanger. The system relates very closely to that of Angelo (see lot 29). See Pardoel 466; see Thimms. p.249.