Le Maistre d’armes, ou l’exercice de l’épée seule dans sa perfection

Paris, 1686. Gelli preserves rich physical detail on portrait, preliminaries, and the 14 Parrelle plates, but his page reads the Paris line as 1696; the catalogue keeps 1686 as the stronger attested date.

Vigeant 1882, pp. 83-84: Paris, 1686. Oblong quarto dedicated to the duc de Bourgogne, with portrait engraved by Langlois after Monet, 14 copper plates by A. Perrelle outside the text, and copies identifiable in an early state without privilege statement or date at the foot of the title.

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

Quality phase 103c: the 1686 Paris first edition was confirmed at 100 numbered pages with 14 plates; the detailed copy description also identifies an oblong quarto format.

Quality phase 229: exact manifestation metadata enriched from individually checked external evidence.

Vigeant 1882, p. 84: Amsterdam, chez la Feuille, 1692. Reduced-format second edition without the master's portrait; frontispiece and plates re-engraved in weak imitation of the original.

Quality phase 101k: production/publication place recovered from an explicit, manifestation-matching statement after individual review.

Quality phase 101m: explicit imprint agent linked after final individual review.

Quality phase 104: the 1692 Amsterdam issue was confirmed as an oblong octavo with 14 engraved plates; textual pagination remains unrecorded.

Quality phase 104: the 1692 Amsterdam issue was confirmed as an oblong octavo with 14 engraved plates; textual pagination remains unrecorded.