Lessons in sabre, singlestick, sabre & bayonet, and sword feats; how to use a cut-and-thrust sword ..
A fencing manual of 1880 by J. M. Waite, published in London by Weldon & Co, teaching sabre, singlestick and sword technique to students of the cut-and-thrust sword. The four plates show pairs of fencers in lunges, parries and cuts, drawn in a sparse engraved line on plain pages, with plate numbers and captions printed beneath; a designer could take their dynamic stance poses and clean linear figure drawing as a reference for action figures.
