Book Description

The 2 supplementary titles are as follows : 'Old Sword Days and Old Sword Ways' & 'being a description of the various swords used in civilised Europe during the last five centuries, and of single combats that have been fought with them. Alfred Hutton was late Captain in the Kings Dragoon Guards, and is also author of 'Cold Steel' & 'Old Swordplay'. This first edition should be regarded as in a different league from two more recent reprints.
Author Alfred Hutton FSA
Date 1901 (First Edition)
Binding Red cloth with gilt titles to spine & a gilt sword motif on front cover. Gilt top edge.
Publisher Grant Richards
Illustrator Numerous black/white illustrations, engravings & drawings, both in the text & as plates + photographic portrait of author as frontispiece
Condition G ( light staining to front & back covers particularly top edges) Otherwise, a good tight copy of this work.
Pages 368

Price: £58.00

Offered by Geoff Cox Books

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