English broadsword and single-stick manual issued in London in 1790 under the byline "By a Highland Officer". Castle notes four copperplates drawn by Cruikshank. The older local 1750 year was a bad inherited import and has been corrected.
London, 1750, J. Aitkin. Gelli notes four copperplates by Cruikshank.
Quality phase 100b: corrupted 1750 year corrected to 1790; confirmed by Google Books and the British Museum: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1977-U-287
Quality phase 101i: explicit publisher/printer statement linked after individual review.
Quality phase 422: exact title, 1790 J. Aitkin imprint and four copperplates confirmed; attributed to G. Sinclair, who published as A Highland Officer.
Quality phase 484: the museum witness supports four instructional images, not a complete pagination.
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Thimm bibliography — phase 465 edition 399
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Thimm bibliography · open
Research witness linked in quality phase 465 (50-edition batch).
Relinked to the canonical manifestation in authority consolidation phase 575.
Exact research witness linked in quality phase 422.
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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 66-67 · Entry CAS-P066-E005
Gelli entry GEL-P518-E002
Gelli (1890)
Jacopo Gelli, Bibliografia generale della scherma con note critiche, biografiche e storiche.
Pages 518,519 · Entry GEL-P518-E002
Thimm entry 121
Thimm (1896)
Carl A. Thimm, A Complete Bibliography of Fencing and Duelling.
Pages 20,21 · Entry 121
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Primary editionAnti-Pugilism; or, The Science of Defence exemplified in short and easy lessons for the practice of the broad sword and single stick
