From Glenn Books, ABAA, ILAB, Prairie Village, KS, U.S.A.
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AbeBooks Seller since 30 August 1999
About this Item
Matted print. A Vanity Fair Supplement color lithograph titled "He insists that his pen is mightier than his sword". Lithograph by Vincent Brooks Day and Son. The illustration shows Mr. Egerton Castle in brown fencing garg, holding a rapier. Castle graduated from Sandhurst, served in the military, in 1885 published an authoratative history of fencing titled, "Schools and Master of Fence, From the Middle Ages to the End of the Eighteenth Century". Sir Leslie Ward was a noted English artist and caricaturist who supplied many illustrations to Vanity Fair under the pseudonym of "Spy". Size: 7 7/8" x 13". Seller Inventory # 012329
Bibliographic Details
Title: SPY PRINT OF A FENCER
Publisher: Vanity Fair, London
Publication Date: 1905
Condition: Fine.
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