First edition, first impression. x, 274pp, with black and white plate illustrations and some further tables etc in text. Green cloth-covered boards with gilt titles on the spine. 8vo. Cloth just a little rubbed on extreme corners and spine ends. Upper text block edge dust dulled. Previously owner's name flamboyantly inked on the first leaf else internally neat, clean, bright and tight. In its original crumpled and worn dust wrapper, rubbed and a little bumped all round extreme edges, visible shelf wear on verso.
This copy from the library of the late George R P Gush. Gush was head of history at West Kent College but is perhaps better remembered as a key contributor to the development of early wargaming, and as an active wargamer especially in Renaissance wargames. His Renaissance Armies (1975) has become a classic work on the topic. He founded the Tunbridge Wells Wargames Society in the late 1960s, remaining its chairman until 2007. A regular contributor to various wargaming and modelling magazines, he authored with Andrew Finch A Guide to Wargaming (1980) and the well-regarded Wargames Rules for Fifteenth to Seventeenth Centuries.
