First edition, first impression. Signed and inscribed by the author on the first leaf. 216pp, black and white illustrations. Black cloth boards, gilt titles on spine 8vo. Cloth a little bruised at spine ends. Upper text block edge heavily dust marked, remaining edges a little spotted. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. In its original dust wrapper, slightly rubbed on extreme edges, very slightly shelf worn.
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.
