Handbook for Model Soldier Collectors (Signed and Inscribed)

Signed and inscribed by the author on the half title page.  156pp, with black and white illustrations.  Laminated, illustrated light card covers.  8vo.  Covers rubbed at edges and a little toned and faded, reading creases to spine. This copy from the library of the late George R P Gush, to whom it is inscribed. Gush was head of history at West Kent College but is perhaps better remembered as a key contributor to the development of early wargaming, and as an active wargamer especially in Renaissance wargames. His Renaissance Armies (1975) has become a classic work on the topic. He founded the Tunbridge Wells Wargames Society in the late 1960s, remaining its chairman until 2007. A regular contributor to various wargaming and modelling magazines, he authored with Andrew Finch A Guide to Wargaming (1980) and the well-regarded Wargames Rules for Fifteenth to Seventeenth Centuries.