War Games Through the Ages: 3000 BC to 1500 AD

304pp, 6pp black and white photographic plates, some in-text illustrations. Brown cloth-covered boards, gilt titles on spine. 8vo. Mottling to boards, rubbed spine ends. Text block edges tanning and foxing. Free endpapers starting to tan; previous owner’s name on front free endpaper; gutters strained, volume quite loose. Otherwise, internally neat, clean and bright. Dust jacket tanning and stained, has light shelf wear, chipping to edges, small closed tear and creasing to bottom rear, 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.