Author:
ANGELO
Title:
The Reminiscences of Henry Angelo. With an Introduction by Lord Howard De Walden, and Notes and Memoir by H. Lavers Smith. Two Volumes
Price:
£235.00
Year:
1904
Edition:
1st thus Edn,
Publisher:
Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co Ltd
Summary:
xxvi - 438, xxvi - 447 pages, Top edge gilt pages uncut 2 volumes, small 4to., 68 plates reproduced from the original's drawings and prints many in colour from collection of Joseph Grego. limited to 1000 copies, bound in matching red cloth with gilt fencing scene to base of front board of each volume, a vg set. First published in 1830. The work gives an insight to the characters and the society of the time Angelo was the most distinguished member of a family of swordsmen and one of the fathers of modern fencing.
Ref:
23036
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