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Scots Fencing Master, or Compleat small-swordman
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Scots Fencing Master, or Compleat small-swordman

Treatise 1687 English United Kingdom

Sir William Hope

H-block staging entry validated for model fit. Imported from staging batch duell-thimm-h, source entry 1028.

Castle also records the 1687 Edinburgh Scots Fencing Master with twelve copperplates.

Vigeant 1882 treats the 1687 Scots Fencing-Master as the original state later reissued in 1692 under the new title The Compleat Fencing-Master.

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Bibliographic Overview
TitleScots Fencing Master, or Compleat small-swordman
AuthorSir William Hope
Earliest publication date1687
LanguageEnglish
CountryUnited Kingdom
Document typeTreatise
Authority statement
Sir William Hope
Fencing Sword
Authority Roles
Author
Sir William Hope
Edition History
Scots Fencing Master, or Compleat small-swordman 1687
CityEdinburgh
PublisherNot specified
PrinterJohn Reid
FormatNot specified
Pages167 p.
DimensionsNot specified
Source pages: 158. Bracketed notes: ["OPE", "ILLIAM"]

Vigeant 1882, p. 136: Edinburgh, 1687. Vigeant explicitly reports the initials W. H. under William Hope and refers this Scottish fencing master to Hope's works.

Quality phase 122: Exact 1687 digital manifestation. Core metadata reviewed from the exact institutional surrogate.

Quality phase 228: exact manifestation metadata enriched from the cited copy-level catalogue evidence.
Digital Witnesses
Internet Archive facsimile - The Scots fencing-master
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Internet Archive · open
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Scholarly References
Castle entry CAS-P059-E003
Castle (1892)
Egerton Castle, Schools and Masters of Fence, from the Middle Ages to the End of the Eighteenth Century. With a complete bibliography. New and revised edition. London: George Bell & Sons, 1892.
Pages 59 · Entry CAS-P059-E003
Thimm entry 1052
Thimm (1896)
Carl A. Thimm, A Complete Bibliography of Fencing and Duelling.
Pages 158 · Entry 1052
Vigeant entry VIG-P136-E002
Vigeant (1882)
Arsène Vigeant, La Bibliographie de l'escrime ancienne et moderne. Paris: Imprimé par Motteroz, 1882.
Pages 136 · Entry VIG-P136-E002
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Primary edition Scots Fencing Master, or Compleat small-swordman
Publisher Not specified
City Edinburgh
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