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Militiaman's Manual and sword-play
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Militiaman's Manual and sword-play

Treatise 1858 English United Kingdom

Matthew W. Berriman

B-block staging entry validated for model fit. Imported from staging batch duell-thimm-b, source entry 207.

Quality phase 275: duplicate work-level record consolidated into this canonical work; distinct bibliographic manifestations and unresolved witness differences remain represented at edition level. Former work 3518 merged into work 498.

4 Editions
6 Resources
0 Holdings
3 References
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Bibliographic Overview
TitleMilitiaman's Manual and sword-play
AuthorMatthew W. Berriman
Earliest publication date1858
LanguageEnglish
CountryUnited Kingdom
Document typeTreatise
Authority statement
Matthew W. Berriman
FencingMilitary TrainingSwordsmanship Sword
Authority Roles
Author
Matthew W. Berriman
Edition History
The Militiaman’s Manual, and Sword-Play Without a Master 1858
CityNew York
PublisherMiller
PrinterNot specified
FormatNot specified
Pages107 p.
DimensionsNot specified
New York, 1858. Short Gelli listing.

Quality phase 125: mislinked digital resource and derived cover moved to exact manifestation 3604.

Quality phase 422: Google Books confirms the 1858 New York Miller manifestation and its 107-page extent.
Militiaman's Manual and sword-play without a master 1861
CityNew York
PublisherD. Van Nostrand
PrinterNot specified
Format12°
Pages107 p.
DimensionsNot specified
New York, 1861, D. van Nostrand. Gelli lists this as an earlier edition of the Berriman manual.

Quality phase 101c: imprint agent recovered from the explicit opening statement and matched to the same-city authority.

Pagination and second-edition statement verified from the Harvard digitization catalogued by Google Books in quality phase 152 (2026-08-15).

Quality phase 422: digitized second edition and contemporary publisher descriptions confirm duodecimo format and twelve plates.
Militiaman's Manual and sword-play without a master. Third edition 1863
CityNew York
PublisherNot specified
PrinterNot specified
FormatNot specified
PagesNot specified
DimensionsNot specified
New York, 1863. Gelli says the third edition is conforming to the second.

Quality phase 422: the reported New York 1863 third edition remains distinct from the documented 1864 fourth edition; incomplete fields were not inferred.
Militiaman's Manual and sword-play 1864
CityNew York
PublisherD. Van Nostrand
PrinterNot specified
Format12°
Pages[2], vi, 107 p.
Dimensions19 cm
Source pages: 36.

Quality phase 111: the fourth edition is collated as one preliminary leaf, vi, 107 pages with 12 plates, 19 cm.

Quality phase 291: The exact fourth edition is collated with twelve plates.
Digital Witnesses
Thimm bibliography — phase 473 edition 3605
Catalogue PDF
Thimm bibliography · open
Research witness linked in quality phase 473 (50-edition batch).
Consult resource
Google Books — The Militiaman’s Manual (1858)
Catalogue HTML OCR
Google Books · open
Exact research witness linked in quality phase 422.

Cover deliberately not assigned in phase 637: Google Books returns only an image-not-available placeholder.

Cover audit phase 719: reviewed in the complete frozen 821-candidate pass. Disposition=already_reviewed_unsuitable. Prior individual audit explicitly rejected this resource: cover deliberately not assigned. External probe: HTTP 200; content type text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1.

Cover audit phase 740: final outcome=previously_rejected; source had already been individually reviewed and rejected as unsuitable for a reliable edition cover.
Consult resource
Internet Archive facsimile - The Militiaman's Manual and sword-play
Facsimile HTML
Internet Archive · open
Relinked from edition 3602 to exact manifestation 3604 in quality phase 125 (2026-08-15).

Quality phase 261: endpoint format normalized as HTML.
Consult resource
HathiTrust digital facsimile - title page
PDF OCR
HathiTrust · open
Digital witness supplied by the user; title-page view begins at sequence 3.
Consult resource
HathiTrust digital facsimile record
Facsimile HTML
HathiTrust · open
Imported from The Online Books Page keyword search "sword" with publication date <= 1920.
Consult resource
The Online Books Page record
Catalogue HTML
The Online Books Page · open
Imported from The Online Books Page keyword search "sword" with publication date <= 1920.
Consult resource
Scholarly References
Gelli entry GEL-P520-E004
Gelli (1890)
Jacopo Gelli, Bibliografia generale della scherma con note critiche, biografiche e storiche.
Pages 520 · Entry GEL-P520-E004
Gelli entry GEL-P521-E001
Gelli (1890)
Jacopo Gelli, Bibliografia generale della scherma con note critiche, biografiche e storiche.
Pages 521 · Entry GEL-P521-E001
Thimm entry 230
Thimm (1896)
Carl A. Thimm, A Complete Bibliography of Fencing and Duelling.
Pages 36 · Entry 230
Reference Snapshot
Digital status Catalogued
Primary edition Militiaman's Manual and sword-play
Publisher D. Van Nostrand
City New York
Format 12°
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