The Ancient War Game

160pp, numerous in-text black and white illustrations and photographs. Blue cloth-covered boards; gilt titles on spine. 8vo. Slightly sun-faded board edges; lightly rubbed spine ends. Text block edges starting to fox and tan, stains to fore and bottom edges. Free endpapers starting to fox and tan, previous owner’s details on front free endpapers; pages starting to age. Otherwise, internally neat, clean and tight. Dust jacket has light shelf wear, edges curling, mirrors book damage, not price clipped, interior tanning.

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.