 | Author: ANDREW LONNERGAN
Title: The fencer's guide: being a series of every branch required to compose a complete system of defence, whereby the Admirers of Fencing are gradually led from the First Rudiments of that Art, through the most complicated Subtilties yet formed by imagination, or applied to practice, until the Lesson, herein many ways varied, also lead them insensibly on to the due Methods of Loose Play, which are here laid down, with every Precaution necessary for that Practice. In four parts. Part I and II contains such a general explanation of the Small Sword as admits of much greater Variety and Novelty than are to be found in any other work of this kind. Part III shews, in the Use of the Broad Sword, such an universal Knowledge of that Weapon, as may be very applicable to the Use of any other that a Man can lawfully carry in his hand. Part IV is compound of the Three former, explaining and teaching the Cut and Thrust, or Spadroon Play, and that in a more subtile and accurate manner than ever appeared in Print. And to these are added Particular Lessons for the Gentlemen of the Horse, Dragoons, and Light Horse, or Hussars, with some necessary Precautions and an Index, explaining every term of that Art throughout the book. The Whole being carefully collected from long Experience and Speculation, is calculated as a Vade-Mecum for Gentlemen of the Army, Navy, Universities & c.
Year: 1771
Size: 268 pages
Language: English
Located in: University of Oxford
Published: W. Griffin, London, 1771
Weapons / topics: broad sword, espadon / spadone, fighting on horseback, small sword, spada da fanteria
Original: http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=4fMIAAAAQAAJ
Original: https://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433044539785
| Submitted on: 2008-06-30
by: Erényi Gábor (Schola Artis Gladii et Armorum)
Last modified on: 2018-10-25
by: Mike Vieillard (Armatura)
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