G-block staging entry validated for model fit. Imported from staging batch duell-thimm-g, source entry 890.
The Gelli witness confirms that the 1736, 1736-1737, 1740, and 1755 Girard issues belong to one work family. The catalogue therefore carries them as edition history under a single work record rather than exposing separate public works for the same fencing treatise.
Castle also records the Paris 1736-1737 Girard witness.
Vigeant 1882 describes the 1736-1737 original Girard issue as having two title states, one without frontispiece and another with a copper frontispiece by Herblot dated 1736 followed by a title dated 1737; he also notes the portrait by Jacques de Favanne, 116 copper engravings outside the text, and the careful printing and ornaments that make the original bibliographically desirable. He then records the 1740 Hague reissue under the title Academie de l homme d epee, without frontispiece, and a third Hague edition of 1755 similar to the second.