Ancient Wargaming

64pp, with black and white illustrations.  Laminated, illustrated boards.  8vo.  Covers gently rounded on corners, slightly shelf worn and sunned over spine.  Upper text block edge dust darkened.  Previous owner’s name (G R P Gush,1975) flamboyantly inked on front paste down.  The inscription has bled a little onto the front free endpapers else internally neat, clean, bright and tight. 

This 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.