A new, short, and easy method of fencing, or, The art of the broad and small-sword rectified and compendiz'd
Subtitle: Wherein, the practice of these two weapons, is reduced to so few and general rules, that any person of an indifferent capacity, and ordinary agility of body, may in a very short time attain to, not only a sufficient knowledge of the theory of this art, but also to a considerable adroitnss [sic] in practice ...
By: by Sir William Hope of Balcomie, baronet ...
Publisher: printed by J. Watson
Published: 1707
Place of publication: Edinburgh
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
Subjects: Fencing; Early works to 1800
Other titles: New, short, and easy method of fencing.; New, short, and easy method of fencing
Notes: First ed.; reprinted 1713 with title Hope's new method of fencing.

Signatures: a-b⁴ chi A-Nn⁴.

Preliminary p. [17] errata; inserted [1] p. between p. 232 and 233 a fold. leaf printed on one side with rules for the management of a School of Arms.

NUC pre-1956, 254:185

BM, 106:667

Folger, 13:347