A treatise on the british drill and exercise of the company; with an introduction to the field exercise of the battalion; explaining the different posts and situations of every individual in the battalion During the Performance of its Movements

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Published by Printed and sold by W. Clowes, London, 1814

About this Item

[3], vi-xxxii, 351pp, [1]. Without half-title. With 82 engraved figures on five folding plates. Contemporary gilt-tooled calf. Lightly rubbed and marked, corners bumped, head of spine scorched. Marbled endpapers, armorial bookplate of Thomas Francis Fremantle, third Lord Cottesloe (1862-1965) to FEP, manuscript shelf-marks to front blank fly-leaf, tear to leaves K9-10 - touching text without loss of sense. The uncommon first edition of an exhaustive and authoritative, manual on British Army drills; published in the penultimate year of the Napoleonic Wars. A second edition appeared in 1816. In his prefatory remarks, the anonymous infantry officer bemoans the 'little attention which is sometimes bestowed to the instruction of the troops' and the 'careless manner in which the drill and exercise are often carried on', situations which he hopes his book may rectify. The usual databases record copies at five locations (BNF, Buffalo, California, Canadian Museum of History, and Mississippi). Size: 12mo. Seller Inventory # AQ22779

Bibliographic Details

Title: A treatise on the british drill and exercise...

Publisher: Printed and sold by W. Clowes, London

Publication Date: 1814

Binding: Hardcover

Edition: First edition.