Displaying the Intricacies of Small-Sword Play; and Reducing the Art to the most Easy & Familiar Principles by regular progressive Lessons. Illustrated by Mathematical Figures, and Adorned with elegant Engravings after paintings from Life, executed in the most masterly Manner representing every material Attitude of the Art. Engraved title, engraved frontispiece by James Newton after James Sowerby, 16 double-page plates and three single-page plates by Newton after McArthur. First Edition. 4to. [269 x 213 x 30 mm]. [1]f, xxiv, 159 pp. Bound in contemporary straight-grained red goatskin, the covers with a gilt fillet border. Smooth spine divided into six panels by two gilt fillets and a pallet, lettered in the second, the others with a small star, the edges of the boards hatched in gilt, the turn-ins tooled with a gilt roll, marbled endleaves, gilt edges. (Headcaps repaired, a little rubbed and darkened in patches). Thimm p.172. Pardoel 427. Some offsetting on the double-page plates and t