A-block staging entry validated for model fit. Imported from staging batch duell-thimm-a, source entry 3. Title normalized on August 6, 2026 from the title page. The concise bibliographic form `The Art of Fencing, or, the Use of the Small Sword` is preferred for catalog use, while the fuller translator and attribution wording is preserved in notes.
A later Gelli witness confirms the Andrew Mahon Dublin translation family as 1734 with a 1735 London reissue. The apparent 1784/1785 reading in raw OCR is rejected in favor of the primary bibliographic witnesses.
Gelli confirms the Dublin 1734 Mahon witness, useful for the Irish publication context of the work family.
Vigeant 1882 preserves the full Dublin 1734 Mahon witness as the only known treatise in Ireland, stressing that it is an English translation of the 1696 Labat treatise and that the 12 plates were copied from the French original.