Domenico Angelo, The School of Fencing (L’École des Armes) — later hand-coloured issue

Domenico Angelo, The School of Fencing (L’École des Armes) — later hand-coloured issue after the 1765 London edition.
Oblong folio. Parallel English and French text; 47 plates after James Gwim/Gwyn, engraved/etched by Hall, Ryland, Grignion and others. Modern quarter-leather binding with marbled boards. The plates are coloured by hand in bright transparent watercolours (colour subtly visible on the versos), illustrating the principal attitudes and positions of the smallsword, including paired actions and disarms. Angelo’s treatise became the standard for elegant smallsword technique in Georgian Britain and was influential enough to be incorporated into Diderot’s Encyclopédie. A handsome later hand-coloured presentation of this celebrated fencing manual.

Notes on edition: Based on the pristine sheets, modern binding, and plate lettering, this appears to be a 20th-century re-issue of the 1765 bilingual edition—quite possibly the 1968 Edita (Lausanne) facsimile/limited issue, for which copies were sometimes custom-bound; a small number of sets are reported as restrikes from the original plates.  We are still researching the edition and are happy to hear from you if you can provide further information.