Proposed Rules and Regulations for the Exercise and Manoeuvres of the Lance, Compiled Entirely from the Polish System, Instituted by Marshal Prince Joseph Poniatowksi, and General Count Corvin Krasinski, and Adapted to The Formations, Movements, and Exercise of the British Cavalry. To which is affixed, an historical account of the most celebrated banners and orders of chivalry, being emblematic and descriptive of the origin and honor formerly attached to bearing gonfanons, or gonfalons, chivalric banners, and lances.

De Montmorency, Lieut. Colonel Reymond Hervey.

Published by London; Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Browne, Paternoster-Row; T. Egerton, Military Library, Whitehall; and John Cumming, no. 16, Lower Ormond-Quay, Dublin, 1820., 1820

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Quarto, pp., xiii, [3], 149, xxv, [1], plus hand-coloured folding frontispiece Prince Poniatowksi, and 19 plates, as called for. Contemporary half-calf over marbled boards, double fillets gilt to spine in compartments, titles gilt to spine, marbled end-papers, all edges speckled red. Spade-shield bookplate of Sir Benjamin Chapman, likely that of the 4th bt (1810-1888), to front paste-down. INSCRIBED PRESENTATION COPY 'To Charles William Sansome From His very sincere Well ridden friend The Author'. Light rubbing to boards, and shelf-wear to corners and edges, upper joint a lille worn but holding firm, slight loss to head of spine. Some plates cut a little close, and very occasional light soiling to contents. A very good copy A rare volume on lancers, written in the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars. The author was a key instigator in the adoption of the lance by British cavalry units. De Montmorency was captured at Verdun, and imprisoned for three years, but was given the freedom to study both the French and Polish lancers, which were world-renowned shock units. This publication was a significant treatise in the transformation of the British cavalry. WorldCat locates 3 copies only, at St. Andrews, Edinburgh, and the National Library of Scotland. Collins, R.M. 'Lieut-Colonel Reymond Hervey de Montmorcey', in Society for Army Historical Research.

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• Title: Proposed Rules and Regulations for the Exercise and Manoeuvres of the Lance, Compiled Entirely from the Polish System, Instituted by Marshal Prince Joseph Poniatowksi, and General Count Corvin Krasinski, and Adapted to The Formations, Movements, and Exercise of the British Cavalry. To which is affixed, an historical account of the most celebrated banners and orders of chivalry, being emblematic and descriptive of the origin and honor formerly attached to bearing gonfanons, or gonfalons, ...
• Publisher: London; Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Browne, Paternoster-Row; T. Egerton, Military Library, Whitehall; and John Cumming, no. 16, Lower Ormond-Quay, Dublin, 1820.
• Publication Date: 1820
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)