Neade, The double-armed man, London, 1625, later morocco, Huth copy

NEADE, WILLIAM

The Double-Armed man, by the New Invention: briefly shewing some famous Exploits atchieved by our Brittish Bowmen: with severall Portraitures proper for the Pike and Bow. [London]: printed for I. Grismand, 1625

FIRST EDITION, 4to (181 x 137mm.), woodcut to title and 6 full-page woodcuts of bowmen and pikemen, with printed folding leaf at end "Obiections against the vse of the Bow with the Pike: And the Answers thereunto", nineteenth-century morocco, minor marginal repairs, repairs to folding leaf (affecting small areas of text)

Neade's "double-armed man" carried a hybrid pike-cum-bow which he proposed would be a more efficient weapon.

LITERATURE:

Cockle 106; ESTC S113129; STC 18416

PROVENANCE:

Huth Library, gilt leather armorial bookplate label, i.e. Henry Huth (1815-1878) and his son Alfred Henry Huth (1850-1910), sale, Sotheby's, 11 July 1917, lot 5235, £12-5s, Tregaskis