Author: MORTON, E.D.,
Title: Martini A-Z of Fencing. [First edition].
Description: S.I. [London], MacDonald/Queen Anne Presse, [circa], 19990. Square 8°. Original cloth, title in silver on spine, dustjacket. 192pp. Many captioned monochrome illustrations in text after photographs and old engravings, including illustration of fencing attributes, bibliography. Much more than a glossary about fencing, fencers and famous fencing masters, it is a compendium of passages of the 16th century Italian and Spanish fencing shools, it is also a collection of accounts of the duels and swashbucklers of fact and fiction. Very fine copy. (private entry in ink on recte of f.e.p.).

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