Napoleon’s Campaigns in Miniature: A Wargamers’ Guide to the Napoleonic Wars, 1796-1815

192pp, some in-text black and white maps and a illustrations. Black cloth-covered boards; gilt titles on spine. 8vo. Rubbed corners and spine ends, some soiling to boards; a little cocked. Top text block edge tanned, remaining edges tanning. Endpapers starting to tan, small piece of tape and stain on front free endpaper; pages ageing; gutters strained, volume quite loose. Otherwise, internally neat and clean. Dust jacket spine sun-faded, has 3cm closed tear to top of rear joint, minor loss, chipping to edges and corners, mirrors book damage, not price clipped.

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.