J. Mc Arthur: The Army and navy Gentleman’s Companion or A New and Complete Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Fencing. Sisplaying the Intricacies of Small Sword Play; and Reducing the Art to the most Easy & Familiar Principles by Regular progressive Lessons. Illustratedby mathematical Figures and Adorned with elegant Engravings after paintings from Life, executed in the most masterly Manner representing every material Attitude of the Art. A New Edition Revisted with a Glossary and Improvements By J. McArthur of the Royal Navy

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J. Mc Arthur : The Army and navy Gentleman’s Companion or A New and Complete Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Fencing. Sisplaying the Intricacies of Small Sword Play; and Reducing the Art to the most Easy & Familiar Principles by Regular progressive Lessons. Illustratedby mathematical Figures and Adorned with elegant Engravings after paintings from Life, executed in the most masterly Manner representing every material Attitude of the Art. A New Edition Revisted with a Glossary and Improvements By J. McArthur of the Royal Navy

J. Murry, c. 1784

Tastefully rebacked with a half calf saving the original gilt decorative tree calf boards. Boards with tooled gilt rules, dense floral gilt design on spine, green label with tooled gilt lettering on compartment two. Five raised bands in six compartments. Edges speckled. Marbled pasted and free end papers. Inner gilt dentelles. , A fine copy in contemporary decorative full calf.
Plates and text are clean and crisp.
, 4to (200mm x 269mm), P Frontis, Title, Dedication (i-iv), Advertisement , Preface (vii-x), Intro (xi- xv), Errata, Subscribers Names (4), Contents (xvii- xxii), 1-162. , Illustrated with an allegorical engraved copper front (painted by J. Sowerby and engraved by J. Newton).and 18 of 19 fold out copper plates (16 of which are several times Fold. Depicting the intricacies of small sword play and reducing the art to the most easy and familiar principles. Plate 15 is missing.



J. McArthur while quite a young man published “The Army and Navy Gentleman’s Companion, or a new and complete Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Fencing”. …It ran through many editions and was long the standard work on the subject. (DNB)

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