| Title: Anti-Pugilism or The Science of Defense, Exemplified in Short and Easy Lessons for the Practice of the Broad Sword and Single Stick, Illustrated with Copper Plates, By a Highland Officer. Whereby Gentlemen may become Proficients in the use of these Weapons, without the hlep of a Master, and be enabled to Chastise the Insolence and Temerity, so frequently met with, from those fashionable Gentlemen, the Johnsonians, Big Bennians, and Mendozians of the present Day; a Work perhaps, better calculated to extirpate this reigning and brutal Folly than a whole Volume of Sermons Year: 1790 Images: 4 Language: English Located in: British Museum
Published: J. Aitkin, London, 1790
Weapons / topics: broad sword, quarterstaff, single-stick
Transcription: http://www.hroarr.com/manuals/boxing-pugilism/Anti-pugilism.doc
| Submitted on: 2008-07-03 by: Erényi Gábor (Schola Artis Gladii et Armorum) Last modified on: 2018-11-16 by: Mike Vieillard (Armatura) 1282302 |