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ANGELO, Henry Charles William (1760-1839?). A Treatise on the Utility and Advantages of Fencing ... to which is added a dissertation on the use of the broad sword. London: George Smeeton for the author, 1817.
Oblong 2° (322 x 490mm). 47 plates after John Gwyn by Hall, W. Ryland, C. Grignon, W. Elliot, T. Chambers and J. Gwin, 6 on the broad sword by T. Rowlandson dated 1798-99, engraved portrait of the Chevalier de St. George by W. Ward after Mather Brown, with slip containing an address to the reader tipped in. (Light spotting, small dampstain in final 9 leaves and plates.) Contemporary cloth wrappers (spine slightly worn).
FIRST EDITION. The first 47 plates appeared in Domenico Angelo's (Henry's father) Ecole des Armes, and in his address to the reader Angelo states that it is his intention in re-publishing them to "convince the Nobility and Gentry of the utility of the art" of fencing; the plates "may preserve the remembrance of the personal instruction which [the student has] received." Angelo counts among his former pupils the daughters of Sir George Rumbold and actresses in the theatre, including Mrs. Barry and Mrs. Goodall. The work ends with a biographical memoir of the Guadaloupan fencing master, the Chevalier de St. George. Thimm pp.10-11; Vigeant p.30.
Oblong 2° (322 x 490mm). 47 plates after John Gwyn by Hall, W. Ryland, C. Grignon, W. Elliot, T. Chambers and J. Gwin, 6 on the broad sword by T. Rowlandson dated 1798-99, engraved portrait of the Chevalier de St. George by W. Ward after Mather Brown, with slip containing an address to the reader tipped in. (Light spotting, small dampstain in final 9 leaves and plates.) Contemporary cloth wrappers (spine slightly worn).
FIRST EDITION. The first 47 plates appeared in Domenico Angelo's (Henry's father) Ecole des Armes, and in his address to the reader Angelo states that it is his intention in re-publishing them to "convince the Nobility and Gentry of the utility of the art" of fencing; the plates "may preserve the remembrance of the personal instruction which [the student has] received." Angelo counts among his former pupils the daughters of Sir George Rumbold and actresses in the theatre, including Mrs. Barry and Mrs. Goodall. The work ends with a biographical memoir of the Guadaloupan fencing master, the Chevalier de St. George. Thimm pp.10-11; Vigeant p.30.