A treatise upon the useful science of defence, connecting the small and back-sword, and shewing the affinity between them. Likewise endeavouring to weed the art of those superfluous, unmeaning practices which over-run it, and choke the true principles, by reducing it to a narrow compass, and supporting it with mathematical proofs. Also an examination into the performances of the most noted masters of the back-sword, who have fought upon the stage, pointing out their faults, and allowing their abilities. With some observations upon boxing, and the characters of the most able boxers within the author's time. By Capt. John Godfrey

People / Organizations

• Thomas Gardner ("printed by")

Imprint

London : Printed [by Thomas Gardner] for T. Osborne, in Gray's-Inn, 1747. Second edition.; ..

Added name

Gardner, Thomas, active 1735-1756, printer.; Osborne, Thomas, -1743, bookseller.; [Robinson, J.], bookseller.

Publication year

1747

ESTC No.

N503987

Grub Street ID

377770

Description

[8], 66 p. ; 4°.

Note

Price in imprint in square brackets: Price two shillings and six-pence

A reissue of the sheets of the 1747 first edition (ESTC T90405), which was printed by Thomas Gardner for the author, with a cancel title

Yale (Beinecke Library) copy has the imprint altered, with 'Printed ... 1747" lined through in ink and 'Sold by J. Robinson, Maiden Lane, Covent Garden' added in ms

in the price, 'Two' and the final 's' of 'Shillings' are lined through and 'One' written above 'Two'

Signatures: A]4 (±A1) B-I]4 K1 (A3, D1, D2 mis-signed 'A2', 'G', 'C2', respectively).