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.
Scholarly References
Castle entry CAS-P066-E005
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 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
Reference Snapshot
Digital statusCatalogued
Primary editionAnti-Pugilism, or the Science of Defence
