Scloppetaria: or considerations on the nature and use of rifled barrel guns, with reference to their forming the basis of a permanent system of national defence, agreeable to the genius of the country

A CORPORAL OF RIFLEMEN

Published by Printed by C. Roworth.for T. Egerton, London, 1808

About this Item

xxiv, With an engraved frontispiece and a further 12 engraved plates. Uncut in modern navy-half calf, grey cloth boards, ruled and lettered in gilt to spine. A trifle rubbed. Scattered spotting, plates browned. With a contemporary single leaf broadside of the rule and regulations of the Acrotormentarian Society of Riflemen tipped-in to RFEP The first edition of a treatise on the history, construction, and use of the rifle, commonly attributed to politician Henry Benjamin Hanbury Beaufoy (1786-1851). A second edition appeared in 1812. The Acrotormentarian Society of Riflemen was a civilian rifle-shooting club founded, as with dozens of other patriotic organisations, during the Napoleonic invasion scare of 1803-04. Size: 8vo.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Scloppetaria: or considerations on the nature and use of rifled barrel guns, with reference to their forming the basis of a permanent system of national defence, agreeable to the genius of the country
• Publisher: Printed by C. Roworth.for T. Egerton, London
• Publication Date: 1808
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First edition.