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THB[Military - Infantry Drills] Influential 1768 Military Manual with 52 Engraved Plates, Earl of Lonsdale's Copy
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Windham, (W.) Col. and George, Lord Townshend. A PLAN OF DISCIPLINE FOR THE USE OF THE NORFOLK MILITIA. In three parts. Part I. Containing The Manual Exercise, with Explanations. The Officers Exercise, and Manner of Saluting, And the Halbert Exercise. Part II. Method of Teaching the Exercise. Rules and Directions for Marching and Wheeling. The Prussian and oblique Steps. Marching, Counter-Marching, and Wheeling by Platoons. Exercise by single Companies. Part III. Reviewing, Forming the Battalion, Firings, Evolutions, Mounting and Relieving a Guard, Standing Orders, &c. With an Introduction from Aelian, Vegetius, Folard, K. of Prussia, M. Saxe Wolfe, and the most celebrated Ancient and Modern Authors: The whole represented in the most accurate and expressive Manner, by above 100 Figures, on 55 Folio and Quarto Copper Plates. Containing several Articles necessary to be known to all Officers, not to be found in any Work of this Kind. By William Windham, Esq ; and the Right Hon. George Lord Visc. Townshend, Lord Lieut. of Ireland. The second edition, greatly improved. To which now is added, the present manual exercise for the army, as ordered by His Majesty and the Adjutant General. With Encampments for Infantry and Cavalry. (London:) Printed for J. Millan, 1768. 2nd Edition, greatly improved. 8 1/4 by 6 1/4 inches in contemporary calf covers with modern leather rebacked with gilt printed red leather label and 5 raised bands. [8], vii, [1], xxxii, 197, [5] p., 52 leaves of plates (some folded). "The reform of the English militia and the new vigour introduced into its affairs after the passage of the Militia Acts of 1757-8 was reflected in the drill books devoted to that service...Without doubt the most useful and popular such work in the army was William Windham's Norfolk Militia, which dealt at length with all five elements of the drill...it contained over fifty plates illustrating the manual and maneuvers; and these were the best plates yet to have appeared in any English drill book." (Houlding: Fit for Service, p. 207). The Norfolk Militia was printed in Boston later in 1768 and was widely used by the American militias leading up to and during the Revolutionary War. With the bookplate of Hugh Cecil Lowther, fifth Earl of Lonsdale and signed by him.
An attractive example, nicely rebacked, and with the plates fresh and clean. The final 5 charts and rear pastedown are damaged, primarily in the gutters, by worming. Still, a very attractive example of a famous Drill Manual.Condition
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