The School of Fencing with a general explanation of the principal attitudes and positions peculiar to the art. London: S. Hooper, 1765

oblong folio (289 x 457mm.), 47 engraved plates, boards, half leather with corners, gilt label on spine, bookplate of Lt Colonel Cecil Angelo (worn, plates 45, 46, 47 reinforced), with additional pasted pages at the back including illustrations of Henry Angelo's fencing room

Provenance

Joe Kindig Jr. (1898-1971), thence by descent

Angelo, from Livorno, ran a fencing school in Soho and then in Eton and was a friend of David Garrick. The plates were designed by John Gwyn and drawn from life with Angelo as the model. These plates were subsequently used by the compilers of Diderot's Encyclopédie. An English language edition was published in the same year.

This lot is sold not subject to return.

Part proceeds to benefit the Acquisition Fund of the Arms and Armor department, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.