SPY PRINT OF A FENCER
by WARD, SIR LESLIE
- Used
- Condition
- Fine.
- Seller
-
Prairie Village, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
London: Vanity Fair, 1905. Matted print. A Vanity Fair Supplement color lithograph titled "He insists that his pen is mightier than his sword". Lithograph by Vincent Brooks Day and Son. The illustration shows Mr. Egerton Castle in brown fencing garg, holding a rapier. Castle graduated from Sandhurst, served in the military, in 1885 published an authoratative history of fencing titled, "Schools and Master of Fence, From the Middle Ages to the End of the Eighteenth Century". Sir Leslie Ward was a noted English artist and caricaturist who supplied many illustrations to Vanity Fair under the pseudonym of "Spy". . Fine.. 7 7/8" x 13".
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Details
- Bookseller
- Glenn Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 012329
- Title
- SPY PRINT OF A FENCER
- Author
- WARD, SIR LESLIE
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine.
- Publisher
- Vanity Fair
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1905
- Size
- 7 7/8" x 13"
- Keywords
- Fencing, Spy Print, Vanity Fair, Fencing
Terms of Sale
Glenn Books
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About the Seller
Glenn Books
Biblio member since 2005
Prairie Village, Kansas
About Glenn Books
We are an antiquarian bookshop established in 1933. We are members of ABAA and ILAB.
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