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The 2nd pt. was printed by John Haviland for the same. Closely
resembles the ist ed., but is without portrait and Errata.
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Contents. A book of precepts drawn up, in the first instance, for the
instruction of Henry, Prince of Wales, of whose household Dallington was a
member.
85. Sixteen-fourteen. H[ale], G[eorge].
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Rules and Obseruances;
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Collation. Tp., A2.—Ded. to Prince Charles, A3-7.—R.H. : "The
priuate Schoole of Defence."—No pag.—Sigs. in 8% A-C j
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Contents. Mistakenly, or untruthfully, the author states that " the Science
of defence . . . was never before in our language brought to any Method.
The Professors thereof being so ignorant, that they could rather doe then
{sic] make demonstration or reduce their doing to any certainty of principle."
Were Saviolo's " Pradlise" and the translation of di Grassi [Nos.61 and 63],
then, so soon forgotten
86. Sixteen-sixteen. T., J.
The A. B.C. of Armes, Or, An Introduction Dire6lorie ;
whereby the order of Militarie exercises may easily be understood.
. . . London, Printed by W. Stansby for lohn Helmes. . . .
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Quarto.
C in eights, first and last leaves blank.—Hazlitt, i., p. 415. "12" Maii.
John Helme. Entred etc. a booke called The A. B. C. of Armes by J. T."—
Arber, iii. 588.
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