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An Introductory Course of Fencing

Book 1837 English United Kingdom

George Roland

R-block staging entry validated for model fit. Imported from staging batch duell-thimm-r, source entry 1813.

Gelli states that the undated second edition belongs to the 1837 introductory course family and that the 1837 work itself is a reduction of Roland's 1828 treatise.

Vigeant 1882 describes the 1837 Introductory Course as a theoretical reduction of George Roland's 1823 treatise and also notes an undated second edition printed at Edinburgh. phase 89: former work 1881 individually reviewed and consolidated here.

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5 References

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Bibliographic Overview

TitleAn Introductory Course of Fencing

AuthorGeorge Roland

Earliest publication date1837

LanguageEnglish

CountryUnited Kingdom

Document typeBook

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George Roland

Fencing

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Author

George Roland

Edition History

An Introductory Course of Fencing 1837

CityEdinburgh

PublisherGeorge Roland (self-published)

PrinterNot specified

FormatSlim 8vo

Pages41 p.

Dimensions24 × 15 cm

Source pages: 283. Bracketed notes: ["5plates."]

Vigeant 1882, p. 112: Edinburgh and London, 1837. In-8 with 5 lithographed plates. Described as a theoretical reduction of the 1823 treatise.

Quality phase 117: Edinburgh 1837 first edition: 41 pages and five lithographic plates; 24 × 15 cm, octavo.

Quality phase 186: primary publication place corrected to Edinburgh. Self-published and sold at Roland’s class-rooms and by Oliver & Boyd; Simpkin, Marshall & Co. was the London seller.

Quality phase 291: The exact Edinburgh 1837 first edition is confirmed with five full-page lithographic plates.

An Introductory Course of Fencing 1846

CityLondon

PublisherSimpkin

PrinterNot specified

Format8°

PagesNot specified

DimensionsNot specified

London: Simpkin, 1846; later edition of George Roland’s introductory course.

Quality phase 101b: publication city recovered from the explicit opening imprint in this note.

Quality phase 101c: imprint agent recovered from the explicit opening statement and matched to the same-city authority.

Quality phase 442: Thimm identifies the 1846 London manifestation as the fourth edition; exact collation remains unresolved.

Digital Witnesses

Thimm — Roland fourth edition (1846)

Catalogue PDF OCR

Carl A. Thimm / Mori BZ · open

Research witness linked in quality phase 442.

Cover audit phase 719: reviewed in the complete frozen 821-candidate pass. Disposition=direct_document_candidate. The URL resolves to a PDF; its opening leaves can be checked for an exact cover or title page. External probe: HTTP 206; content type application/pdf.

Cover audit phase 740: final outcome=document_reviewed_no_exact_cover; document checked; it was secondary, non-exact, low-resolution, or did not supply a suitable cover for this manifestation.

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HathiTrust digital facsimile record

Facsimile HTML

HathiTrust · open

Imported from The Online Books Page keyword search "fencing" with publication date <= 1920.

Cover audit phase 719: reviewed in the complete frozen 821-candidate pass. Disposition=catalogue_or_finding_aid. Bibliographic catalogue/finding-aid record; useful for identity, but not itself an edition image source. External probe: HTTP 403; content type text/html; charset=UTF-8.

Cover audit phase 740: final outcome=no_image_catalogue_only; bibliographic catalogue or finding-aid record; retained for authority control, but it does not expose a reusable manifestation image.

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The Online Books Page record

Catalogue HTML

The Online Books Page · open

Imported from The Online Books Page keyword search "fencing" with publication date <= 1920.

Cover audit phase 719: reviewed in the complete frozen 821-candidate pass. Disposition=catalogue_or_finding_aid. Bibliographic catalogue/finding-aid record; useful for identity, but not itself an edition image source. External probe: HTTP 200; content type text/html; charset=utf-8.

Cover audit phase 740: final outcome=no_image_catalogue_only; bibliographic catalogue or finding-aid record; retained for authority control, but it does not expose a reusable manifestation image.

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Scholarly References

Gelli entry GEL-P546-E001

Gelli (1890)

Jacopo Gelli, Bibliografia generale della scherma con note critiche, biografiche e storiche.

Pages 546 · Entry GEL-P546-E001

Gelli entry GEL-P546-E002

Gelli (1890)

Jacopo Gelli, Bibliografia generale della scherma con note critiche, biografiche e storiche.

Pages 546 · Entry GEL-P546-E002

Thimm entry 1837

Thimm (1896)

Carl A. Thimm, A Complete Bibliography of Fencing and Duelling.

Pages 283 · Entry 1837

Thimm entry 1838

Thimm (1896)

Carl A. Thimm, A Complete Bibliography of Fencing and Duelling.

Pages 283 · Entry 1838

Vigeant entry VIG-P112-E001

Vigeant (1882)

Arsène Vigeant, La Bibliographie de l'escrime ancienne et moderne. Paris: Imprimé par Motteroz, 1882.

Pages 112 · Entry VIG-P112-E001

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