‎"BURTON, RICHARD F. - PRESENTATION COPY - INSCRIBED FROM THE AUTHOR.‎
‎A New System of Sword Excercise for Infantry. - [PRESENTATION COPY - INSCRIBED FROM THE AUTHOR.]‎

‎London, William Clowes and Sons, 1876. Small 8vo. Original full red cloth. Title and author stamped in gold on upper wrapper. A small paperlabel at top of spine. A small stamp on top of title-page. Faint discoloration to lower part of upper wrapper. Frontispiece. 59 pp., textillustrations. Faint scattered brownspots, mainly to the first leaves. With dedication from the author on front free endpaper ""H.P./ General Baron von Bülow/ with the authors compliments."" Bülow is probably the Danish Genreral-Major Otto Chr. Severin August von Bülow (1812-95) or it could be General-Lieutnant Carl Ernst Johan Bülow (1814-1890) who was a member of the Danish legation to the English Court from 1865 to 1880. A note on the front free endpaper states, that the book in 1885 was handed over to the School of Gymnastics by General Fog. On foot of the same leaf some discoloration left over from a paperlabel.‎

Reference : 59271

‎First edition. - Extremely scarce. Penzer p.93: 'very rare'.‎