The History and Art of Personal Combat (Uncorrected Bound Proof)

512pp, complete with illustrations. Text printed on one side of each leaf only. With a clear Perspex front cover, blue card rear cover, bound with a linen spine (just a little rubbed at spine tips). Internally neat, clean and bright, barring some writing in ink on the page facing the index. An uncorrected proof copy of Wise's seminal work on the significance, history and development of personal combat. Not concerned with the violence of warfare directed by policy, it simply addresses the question of, when two people come together to inflict physical damage on each other, how and why do they do it.