Rapier Researcher's Recommended Reading

Books Currently In Print

91-50103: Berry, Herbert.  The noble science : a study and transcription
     of Sloane Ms. 2530, papers of the Masters of Defence of London, Temp.
     Henry VIII to 1590 /  Newark, Del. : University of Delaware Press ;
     London ; Toronto : Associated University Presses, c1991.  140 p. : 1
     facsim. ; 24 cm.
     LC CALL NUMBER: GV1145 .B47 1991

90-70103: Billacois, Francois.  The duel : its rise and fall in early
     modern France /  New Haven : Yale University Press, 1990.  vi, 252 p. ;
     24 cm.
     LC CALL NUMBER: CR4595.F8 B5513 1990

87-140372: Billacois, Francois.  Le duel dans la societe francaise des
     XVIe-XVIIe siecles : essai de psychosociologie historique /  Paris :
     Editions de l'Ecole des hautes etudes en sciences sociales, c1986.  539
     p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
     LC CALL NUMBER: CR4595.F8 B55 1986

72-130411: Hutton, Alfred.  The sword and the centuries; or, Old sword days
     and old sword ways; being a description of the various swords used in
     civilized Europe during the last five centuries, and of single combats
     which have been fought with them.  Rutland, Vt., C. E. Tuttle Co. [1973]
     xxiv, 367 p. illus. 22 cm.
     LC CALL NUMBER: U850 .H8 1973

72-6321: Jackson, James Louis, 1916- comp.  Three Elizabethan fencing
     manuals.  Delmar, N.Y., Scholars' Facsimiles & Reprints, 1972.  ix, 634 p.
     illus. 23 cm.
     LC CALL NUMBER: U860 .J3 1972

80-7674: Norman, A. Vesey B.
     The rapier and small-sword, 1460-1820 / A. V. B. Norman, with
     ill. and advice by C. M. Barne.  1st American ed.  London : Arms and 
     Armour Press ; New York : Arno Press, 1980.  464 p., [16] leaves of 
     plates : ill. ; 26 cm.
     LC CALL NUMBER: U854 .N67

89-6103: Turner, Craig.  Methods and practice of Elizabethan swordplay /
     Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, c1990.  xxiv, 139 p. :
     ill. ; 23 cm.
     LC CALL NUMBER: U860 .T87 1990

Books Out of Print

61-41523: Aylward, J. D.  The small-sword in England, its history, its
     forms, its makers, and its masters.   New and rev. ed.   London,
     Hutchinson [1960]  176 p. illus. 22 cm.
     LC CALL NUMBER: U856.G7 A9 1960

57-164: Aylward, J. D.  The English master of arms from the twelfth to the
     twentieth century.   London, Routledge & Paul [1956]  284 p. illus. 23 cm.
     LC CALL NUMBER: U860 .A9

65-27238: Baldick, Robert.  The duel;   New York, C. N. Porter [1965]  212
     p. illus. (part col.) facsims. 26 cm.
     LC CALL NUMBER: CR4575 .B25

Brantome, Pierre de Bourdeille, seigneur de, d. 1614. Duelling stories of the 
     sixteenth century from the French of Brantome / by George H. Powell.
     London : A. H. Bullen, 1904. vii, 244 p., [28] leaves of plates : ill., 
     ports. ; 23 cm.
     Translation of Discours sur les duels de Brantome.
     NOTE: not found in LOC database.

63-56905: Bryson, Frederick Robertson, 1878-  Honor and the duel in
     sixteenth-century Italy: an aspect of the life of the gentleman.
     Chicago, 1933.  v, 393 l. 32 cm.
     LC CALL NUMBER: CR4595.I8 B69

38-38685: Bryson, Frederick Robertson, 1878-  The sixteenth-century Italian
     duel; a study in renaissance social history,   Chicago, Ill., The
     University of Chicago press [1938]  xxviii, 248 p. 24 cm.
     LC CALL NUMBER: CR4595.I8 B73

36-7869: Bryson, Frederick Robertson, 1878-  The point of honor in
     sixteenth-century Italy: an aspect of the life of the gentleman,   New
     York, Columbia university [c1935]  4 p.l., 129 p. 21 cm.
     LC CALL NUMBER: CR4595.I8 B7 1935

35-34032: Bryson, Frederick Robertson, 1878-  The point of honor in
     sixteenth-century Italy: an aspect of the life of the gentleman ...
     Chicago, Ill., 1935.  4 p.l., 129 p. 21 cm.
     LC CALL NUMBER: CR4595.I8 B7 1933

01-17712: Castle, Egerton, 1858-  Bibliotheca artis dimicatoriae.   4th
     ed.   London, 1897.  p. [239]-293, 20 cm.
     LC CALL NUMBER: GV1111 .P77

76-457446: Castle, Egerton, 1858-1920.  Schools and masters of fence: from
     the middle ages to the eighteenth century;  3rd ed.  London, Arms &
     Armour P., 1969.  [4], liv, 245 p., 12 plates. illus., facsim. 26 cm.
     LC CALL NUMBER: U860 .C35 1969

73-89562: Castle, Egerton, 1858-1920.  Schools and masters of fence, from
     the Middle Ages to the eighteenth century.  [3d ed.]  York, Pa., G.
     Shumway [1969]  lii, [2], 254 p. illus. 26 cm.
     LC CALL NUMBER: U860 .C35 1969b

80-512640: Hutton, Alfred.  Old sword-play : the systems of fence in vogue
     during the XVIth, XVIIth, and XVIIIth centuries with lessons arranged
     from the works of various ancient masters /  London : H. Grevel ; New
     York : B. Westermann, 1892.  x, 36 p., 57 leaves of plates : ill. ; 29 cm.
     LC CALL NUMBER: U865 .H87

09-19356: Sabine, Lorenzo, 1803-1877.  Notes on duels and duelling, 
     alphabetically arranged, with a preliminary historical essay.   
     Boston, Crosby, Nichols, and company, 1855.  viii, 394 p. 20 cm.
     LC CALL NUMBER: CR4575 .S2

01-2640: Thimm, Carl Albert.  A complete bibliography of fencing and
     duelling,   London and New York, John Lane, 1896.  xvi, 537, [1] p., 1 l.
     front., illus., plates, ports. (part col.) facsims. 25 cm.
     LC CALL NUMBER: Z5906 .T44

68-17217: Valentine, Eric.  Rapiers; an illustrated reference guide to
     the rapiers of the 16th and 17th centuries, with their
     companions. Photos. by Edward Perry.  [Harrisburg, Pa.]  Stackpole
     Books [1968] 74 p. illus. 22 cm.
LC CALL NUMBER: U855 .V3

Historical Manuscripts

55-3690: Agrippa, Camillo, 16th century.  Trattato di scientia d'arme,
     Roma, A. Blado, stampadore apostolico, 1553.  lxx l. illus., port. 24 cm.
     LC CALL NUMBER: U860 .A3 (Rosenwald Coll)

96-106062: Blackwell, Henry.  The English fencing-master, or, The compleat
     tuterour of the small sword : wherein the truest method, after a
     mathematical rule, is plainly laid down ... in a dialogue between master
     and scholar : adorn'd with several curious postures.  London : Printed by
     J. Downing ... for the author, 1702.  [12], 55, [1] p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
     LC CALL NUMBER: AC901 .M5 vol. 1089, no. 3  

55-46270: Capoferro, Ridolfo.  Gran simvlacro dell'arte e dell'vso della
     scherma.   Siena, S. Marchetti, e C. Turi, 1610.  118 p. illus., port. 21
     x 28 cm.
     LC CALL NUMBER: U860 .C26 (Rare Bk. Coll.)

55-46269: Capoferro, Ridolfo.  Gran simvlacro dell'arte e dell'vso della
     scherma.   [Siena?] 1632.  1 v. (unpaged) 43 plates. 10 x 15 cm.
     LC CALL NUMBER: U860 .C26 1632 (Rare Bk Coll)

tmp92-9548: Grassi, Giacomo di.  Giacomi di Grassi, his true arte of
     defence, plainlie teaching ... how a man ... may safelie handle all
     sortes of weapons ... with a treatise of disceit or falsinge ...  London,
     Printed for I. I[aggard] 1594.  4 l.
     LC CALL NUMBER: Microfilm 3823  

50-42696: Thibault, Gerard, 17th cent.  Academie de l'espee,  [Leyde,
     Elsevier] 1628.  p. cm.
     LC CALL NUMBER: U865 .T5  

21-11897: Saint Didier, Henry de, fl. 1570.  Traicte contenant les
     secrets dv premier livre svr l'espee sevl,  [Paris, Societe du livre
     d'art ancien et moderne, 1907]  2 p.l., 2-88 numb. l., [21] p. illus., 2
     port. 29 x 23 cm.
     LC CALL NUMBER: U860 .S2

68-27484: Silver, George, fl. 1599.  Paradoxes of defence.  Amsterdam,
     Theatrum Orbis Terrarum; New York, Da Capo Press, 1968.  72 p. illus. 21
     cm.
     LC CALL NUMBER: U860 .S53 1968