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Hope's New Method of Fencing; or the True and Solid Art of Fighting with the Back-Sword, Sheering-Sword, Small-Sword, and Sword and Pistol

Book 1714 English United Kingdom

Sir William Hope

Gelli presents this as the second edition of the 1707 Hope fencing system.

Castle also records the 1714 Edinburgh second edition of Hope's New Method of Fencing.

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Bibliographic Overview
TitleHope's New Method of Fencing; or the True and Solid Art of Fighting with the Back-Sword, Sheering-Sword, Small-Sword, and Sword and Pistol
AuthorSir William Hope
Earliest publication date1714
LanguageEnglish
CountryUnited Kingdom
Document typeBook
Authority statement
Sir William Hope
Fencing BroadswordSword
Authority Roles
Author
Sir William Hope
Edition History
Hope's New Method of Fencing; or the True and Solid Art of Fighting with the Back-Sword, Sheering-Sword, Small-Sword, and Sword and Pistol 1714
CityEdinburgh
PublisherNot specified
PrinterJames Watson
FormatNot specified
PagesNot specified
DimensionsNot specified
Edinburgh, 1714, printed by James Watson. Gelli treats it as the second edition of the 1707 work.

Quality phase 101c: imprint agent recovered from the explicit opening statement and matched to the same-city authority.
Scholarly References
Castle entry CAS-P061-E003
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 61-62 · Entry CAS-P061-E003
Gelli entry GEL-P534-E001
Gelli (1890)
Jacopo Gelli, Bibliografia generale della scherma con note critiche, biografiche e storiche.
Pages 534 · Entry GEL-P534-E001