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Fencing Familiarized
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Fencing Familiarized

Treatise 1771 English United Kingdom

Jean Olivier

O-block staging entry validated for model fit. Imported from staging batch duell-thimm-o, source entry 1572. Retitled from title with long descriptive subtitle.

Gelli describes the 1780 London second edition as revised and corrected, adding fourteen new plates drawn by J. Roberts while preserving the bilingual character of the Olivier family.

Gelli also records the earlier 1771-1772 London bilingual Olivier state before the already-present 1780 second edition.

Gelli also records the earlier 1771-1772 London bilingual Olivier state before the already-catalogued later edition.

Castle also records the 1780 revised second edition of Olivier.

Vigeant 1882 records the 1780 London second edition of Olivier's work as revised and corrected, keeping the first frontispiece but adding fourteen superior plates by J. Roberts and engravers D. Jinkins, Goldar, W. Blake, and C. Grignon.

Quality phase 192: duplicate author shells OLIVIER and Mr. Olivier consolidated as Jean Olivier; ESTC T135606 confirms the first-edition bilingual state.

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Bibliographic Overview
TitleFencing Familiarized
AuthorJean Olivier
Earliest publication date1771
LanguageEnglish
CountryUnited Kingdom
Document typeTreatise
Authority statement
Jean Olivier
Fencing
Authority Roles
Author
Jean Olivier
Edition History
Fencing Familiarized: or, A New Treatise on the Art of Sword Play = L’art des armes simplifié 1771
CityLondon
PublisherJohn Bell; C. Etherington
PrinterNot specified
Format8vo
Pages[4], v–xlix, [2], 3–196, [1] p.
DimensionsNot specified
London, 1771-1772, printed for John Bell and C. Etherington at York. Bilingual French-English state with frontispiece and eight folding Ovenden plates, per Gelli.

Quality phase 100c: ESTC T135606 / MPG record and collated copy description confirm London/York, John Bell and C. Etherington, 1771, octavo, pagination and nine image leaves: https://ebooks.mpdl.mpg.de/ebooks/Record/EB000477662

Quality phase 192: ESTC T135606 and collated first-edition records confirm the 1771 bilingual state and distinguish the frontispiece from eight plates.
FencingFamiliarized,oraNewTreatiseontheArt ofSwordPlay. IllustratedbyElegantEngravings,representingall thedifferentAttitudesinwhichthePrinciplesandGraceoftheArt depend; painted from life, and executed in a most elegant and masterlymanner 1780
CityLondon
PublisherJohn Bell
PrinterNot specified
Format
Pages[5], ii–vii, [6], x–xlvii, 205 p.
DimensionsNot specified
Source pages: 243. Bracketed notes: ["Facingthe abovetitleis its exacttranslationintoFrench. Thetextisinboth languages. Frontispieceandeightfoldedplates,engravedbyOvenden.", "Dedicatedto the EarlofHarrington. Samefrontispiece as infirstedition; buttheplates (14)aredifferent, beingdrawnbyJ. Roberts, andengraved by D. Jinkins, Goldar, W. Blake, andC. Grignon."]

Vigeant 1882, p. 98: London, J. Bell, 1780. Revised and corrected second edition, with the same frontispiece but 14 additional plates drawn by J. Roberts and engraved by D. Jinkins, Goldar, W. Blake, and C. Grignon; Vigeant says they are superior but badly numbered.

Quality phase 107: an exact 1780 second-edition copy description confirms the bilingual collation and the complete issue requirement of 14 engraved plates.
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Scholarly References
Castle entry CAS-P065-E002
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 65 · Entry CAS-P065-E002
Gelli entry GEL-P447-E001
Gelli (1890)
Jacopo Gelli, Bibliografia generale della scherma con note critiche, biografiche e storiche.
Pages 447 · Entry GEL-P447-E001
Gelli entry GEL-P542-E003
Gelli (1890)
Jacopo Gelli, Bibliografia generale della scherma con note critiche, biografiche e storiche.
Pages 542,543 · Entry GEL-P542-E003
Thimm entry 1596
Thimm (1896)
Carl A. Thimm, A Complete Bibliography of Fencing and Duelling.
Pages 243 · Entry 1596
Vigeant entry VIG-P098-E001
Vigeant (1882)
Arsène Vigeant, La Bibliographie de l'escrime ancienne et moderne. Paris: Imprimé par Motteroz, 1882.
Pages 98 · Entry VIG-P098-E001