Olivier Fencing Familiarized 1780
Jean Olivier Fencing Familiarized or a New Treatise on the Art of the Small Sword. A New Edition, Revised, Corrected, and Augmented by an original Set of Prints. Published by London: John Bell 1780. Second edition. The front pastedown has an engraved bookplate for Raymond L. J. Riling (1896-1974), a prominent expert on military firearms and dealer of antique and collectible guns.
A bilingual, in French and English, treatises on the use of the smallsword. Written by the famous French fence-master Jean Olivier, who kept a flourishing school in St. Dunstans Court. Castle notes that Olivier was 'perhaps, after Angelo, the most popular master of the small sword in London. His work is very sound, and thoroughly justifies its French title, as it contains a simplified system, shorn of all unnecessary and obsolete details'. The plates to this edition are superior in comparison to the first printing, which was issued by the same publisher in 1771.
20.6 x 11.5cm, 20th-century half morocco, rebacked with original spine laid down, all edges gilt. With engraved frontispiece and 13 folding plates, 2 sets of engraved arms in the text. Plates toned and offset, plates 2-4 and 13 without numbers (possibly cropped by binder), plate 3 with split and faint adhesive residue at foot of fold [ESTC T135608, 3 copies in UK libraries]
Jean Olivier Fencing Familiarized or a New Treatise on the Art of the Small Sword. A New Edition, Revised, Corrected, and Augmented by an original Set of Prints. Published by London: John Bell 1780. Second edition. The front pastedown has an engraved bookplate for Raymond L. J. Riling (1896-1974), a prominent expert on military firearms and dealer of antique and collectible guns.
A bilingual, in French and English, treatises on the use of the smallsword. Written by the famous French fence-master Jean Olivier, who kept a flourishing school in St. Dunstans Court. Castle notes that Olivier was 'perhaps, after Angelo, the most popular master of the small sword in London. His work is very sound, and thoroughly justifies its French title, as it contains a simplified system, shorn of all unnecessary and obsolete details'. The plates to this edition are superior in comparison to the first printing, which was issued by the same publisher in 1771.
20.6 x 11.5cm, 20th-century half morocco, rebacked with original spine laid down, all edges gilt. With engraved frontispiece and 13 folding plates, 2 sets of engraved arms in the text. Plates toned and offset, plates 2-4 and 13 without numbers (possibly cropped by binder), plate 3 with split and faint adhesive residue at foot of fold [ESTC T135608, 3 copies in UK libraries]
Jean Olivier Fencing Familiarized or a New Treatise on the Art of the Small Sword. A New Edition, Revised, Corrected, and Augmented by an original Set of Prints. Published by London: John Bell 1780. Second edition. The front pastedown has an engraved bookplate for Raymond L. J. Riling (1896-1974), a prominent expert on military firearms and dealer of antique and collectible guns.
A bilingual, in French and English, treatises on the use of the smallsword. Written by the famous French fence-master Jean Olivier, who kept a flourishing school in St. Dunstans Court. Castle notes that Olivier was 'perhaps, after Angelo, the most popular master of the small sword in London. His work is very sound, and thoroughly justifies its French title, as it contains a simplified system, shorn of all unnecessary and obsolete details'. The plates to this edition are superior in comparison to the first printing, which was issued by the same publisher in 1771.
20.6 x 11.5cm, 20th-century half morocco, rebacked with original spine laid down, all edges gilt. With engraved frontispiece and 13 folding plates, 2 sets of engraved arms in the text. Plates toned and offset, plates 2-4 and 13 without numbers (possibly cropped by binder), plate 3 with split and faint adhesive residue at foot of fold [ESTC T135608, 3 copies in UK libraries]