Yeah. This one comes before the printing press, so there weren’t many and they were all hand copied. (This author has 4 we know of.) It is suspected, but can’t be proven, that if you hired him to teach you what you needed to know for an upcoming duel, he might make a book like this to leave you as a sort of cliff notes for what he taught you. So, possibly, he went over this with you as a “don’t let this happen to you!” kind of thing. At least that’s one theory as to why he, and others, wrote the book at this time…
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Date: 2024-09-12 12:54 pm (UTC)It is suspected, but can’t be proven, that if you hired him to teach you what you needed to know for an upcoming duel, he might make a book like this to leave you as a sort of cliff notes for what he taught you.
So, possibly, he went over this with you as a “don’t let this happen to you!” kind of thing.
At least that’s one theory as to why he, and others, wrote the book at this time…