A History of Toy Soldiers: Over 600 Firms Covered

First edition, first impression.  xviii, 622pp, profusely illustrated in full colour.  Racing green cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering to spine.  Red endpapers.  8vo.  Volume is neat, clean, bright and tight throughout.  In its original dust wrapper, lightly bumped on extreme edges. 009160This copy from the library of the late George R P Gush. 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.