Grondige beschryvinge van de edele ende ridderlijcke scherm- ofte wapen-konste : noyt diergelijcke in dese nederduytse tale in den druck uytgegaen, met veele schoone kopere figueren verciert
A 1676 Dutch fencing manual printed in Amsterdam for Daniel van Dalen, by Johannes Georgius Bruchius with plates by Abraham Verhoef, describing the noble and chivalric art of swordplay. The pictures are small etched plates of paired fencers in numbered sequences, each pair shown in a lunge, parry or bind with blades crossed, drawn in plain line with light hatching and little background. A designer could take from them a clear vocabulary of stance and body posture, with the numbered frames reading almost like a storyboard of motion.
