A TREATISE ON THE DUTY OF INFANTRY OFFICERS AND THE PRESENT SYSTEM OF BRITISH MILITARY DISCIPLINE, WITH AN APPENDIX by Reide, Thomas (Captain in the Loyal Essex Regiment of Fencible Infantry) - 1795

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London: Sold by J. Walter, and T. Egerton, 1795. First Edition, 12mo (155 x 98 mm), viii, 239, [1] pp., ownership inscription of "James Johnstone, of the West Lowland Fencible Infantry, Hastings, Sussex. July 1795." on front fly-leaf, contemporary sheep, upper hinge detached. A handbook written at the commencement of the Napoleonic wars on the organisation and structure of military discipline in the British army written by an officer of the Loyal Essex Regiment of Fencible Infantry. Divided into two parts, the first 'treats of the duty of officers in camp, garrison and quarters, particularly designed for the use of young officers unacquainted with the service,.....'. The second is on the 'discipline of a regiment, comprising the new orders for drilling the men, field exercise and review.'

Dublin: Printed for P. Byrne, 1796. viii,196pp. Contemporary gilt-ruled sheep. Extremities worn, surface loss to spine and boards, corners bumped. Hinges exposed, early ownership inscription of Captain Leeson to FEP, worm-track running through head of text-block (not touching text). A rare survival of the first Dublin edition (printed in the year after the first London edition) of a manual intended for the use of infantry officers of the British Army, taking into account the recent alterations in discipline modelled on the Prussian military, as established by Frederick the Great. ESTC records a single copy (Pennsylvania). ESTC N47876.. 12mo.