Medieval Combat : A Fifteenth-Century Illustrated Manual of Swordfighting and Close-Quarter Combat
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318pp, black and white illustrations. In green cloth boards with gilt titles on spine (boards are strong, square, clean-edged and bright, with some very gentle bruising at spine base). Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. In its original dust jacket (very slightly bumped at spine base, mild shelf wear). One of the most influential and lavishly drawn fencing manuals of the Middle Ages available in English for the first time. Talhoffer's original text was written in 1467.
