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A treatise on the utility and advantages of fencing
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A treatise on the utility and advantages of fencing

Treatise 1817 English United Kingdom

Henry Angelo

Henry Angelo's 1817 London treatise, valued chiefly for its memoir material on Angelo père and Saint-George as well as its appended broadsword matter.

Vigeant 1882 describes the 1817 Angelo volume as an album gathering the plates of L'Ecole des armes, with a portrait of Chevalier Saint-George engraved by W. Ward after Brown, six Rowlandson broadsword plates from 1798-1799, and memoir material that gives the book special historical interest.

Quality phase 526: duplicate work 376 consolidated into this canonical work. The memoir wording is a component title of the same London 1817 treatise manifestation.

Legacy record 376: Memoirs of the late Mr. Angelo and a biographical sketch of Chevalier St. George, with his portrait. Folio. 1817. London: published by Mr. Angelo, Bolton Row, andathisfencingacademy, OldBondStreet. [Containingthesame platesasthe "EcoledesArmes" oftheauthor'sfather, aportraitofSt.George,engravedbyW. WardfromapictureofBrown,and sixplates engravedanddesignedbyRowlandson, underthecareofAngelo himself, in1798-1799.]

A-block staging entry validated for model fit. Imported from staging batch duell-thimm-a, source entry 76.

Castle also records the 1817 London memoir volume on Angelo and Saint-George.

Quality phase 527: responsibility fixed to Henry Charles William Angelo (1756–1835), the memoirist and son of Domenico; the duplicate link to his son Henry Charles Angelo (1780–1852) was removed.

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2 Resources
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6 References
Bibliographic Overview
TitleA treatise on the utility and advantages of fencing
AuthorHenry Angelo
Earliest publication date1817
LanguageEnglish
CountryUnited Kingdom
Document typeTreatise
Authority statement
Henry Angelo
Fencing
Authority Roles
Author
Henry Angelo
Edition History
A treatise on the utility and advantages of fencing 1817
CityLondon
PublisherMr. Angelo
PrinterG. Smeeton
FormatOblong folio
Pages47 fencing plates; 6 broadsword plates; 1 portrait
Dimensions322 × 490 mm
London, 1817. Angelo volume with memoir material on Angelo père and Saint-George, plus broadsword matter and plates noted by Gelli and Castle.

Vigeant 1882, p. 30: London, 1817; published by Mr Angelo, B. R. Piccadilly, and at his Fencing Academy, Old Bond Street; printed by G. Smeeton, Saint-Martin's Lane. Folio with 47 engravings, plus a dissertation on the broadsword with 6 descriptive plates.

Quality phase 101h: Mr. Angelo publisher and G. Smeeton printer recovered from the explicit edition statement.

Quality phase 122: Exact 1817 digital manifestation. Core metadata reviewed from the exact institutional surrogate.

Copy-level physical description added from the exact 1817 manifestation in quality phase 152 (2026-08-15); textual pagination remains unstated by the source.

Quality phase 526: duplicate edition 379 consolidated here. Legacy note: Source pages: 18,19. Bracketed notes: ["Containingthesame platesasthe \"EcoledesArmes\" oftheauthor'sfather, aportraitofSt.George,engravedbyW. WardfromapictureofBrown,and sixplates engravedanddesignedbyRowlandson, underthecareofAngelo himself, in1798-1799."]

Quality phase 289: The exact London 1817 title and reference identify the biographical portrait.

Quality phase 467: restored the complete 1817 publication context; the imported title represented only its memoir and biographical sections.
Digital Witnesses
Thimm bibliography — phase 467 edition 379
Catalogue PDF
Thimm bibliography · open
Research witness linked in quality phase 467 (50-edition batch). Transferred from duplicate edition 379 in quality phase 526.
Internet Archive facsimile - A Treatise on the utility and advantages of fencing
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Quality phase 261: endpoint format normalized as HTML.
Scholarly References
Castle entry CAS-P068-E006
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 68-69 · Entry CAS-P068-E006
Castle entry CAS-P069-E001
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 69 · Entry CAS-P069-E001
Gelli entry GEL-P517-E002
Gelli (1890)
Jacopo Gelli, Bibliografia generale della scherma con note critiche, biografiche e storiche.
Pages 517-518 · Entry GEL-P517-E002
Thimm entry 100
Thimm (1896)
Carl A. Thimm, A Complete Bibliography of Fencing and Duelling.
Pages 18 · Entry 100
Thimm entry 101
Thimm (1896)
Carl A. Thimm, A Complete Bibliography of Fencing and Duelling.
Pages 18,19 · Entry 101
Vigeant entry VIG-P030-E001
Vigeant (1882)
Arsène Vigeant, La Bibliographie de l'escrime ancienne et moderne. Paris: Imprimé par Motteroz, 1882.
Pages 30 · Entry VIG-P030-E001