First edition, first impression. Signed and inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper. 144pp, with some black and white plate illustrations. Blue cloth-covered boards, gilt-stamped lettering to spine. 8vo. Cloth is a little worn, rounded on corners and spine ends. Very slightly cocked. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. In its original, now shelf worn, dust jacket, rubbed and bumped at edges, with slight chipping at spine ends.
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.
