Practical treatise on strengthening and defending outposts, villages, houses, bridges, &c. . in reference to the duties of officers in command of picquets, as laid down in the field exercise and evolutions of the army. By Colonel Jebb, C.B., Royal Engineers.
Sir Joshua Jebb, KCB (1793-1863)
Category
Books
Date
1857
Materials
Bookcloth and paper
Measurements
218 x 146 mm; 31 mm (thickness)
Place of origin
England
Collection
Wallington, Northumberland
NT 3088216.1
Summary
Bibliographic description
viii,100p., 15 leaves of plates . ill..,plans . 8vo.. Bound with Jebb's Practical treatise on the attack of military posts (1853) and Practical Treatise on the duties to be performed ... at a siege, 1855.. Provenance: manuscript on endpaper: 'F.A. Gordon 60th Rifles Returned from India Oct 31st 1868'; 'Mr. John Edward Pratt Barlow Sept 1859'. Twentieth-century pictorial armorial bookplate, a re-working of an earlier William Bell Scott pictorial Trevelyan bookplate (Franks 29799) of Sir Walter Calverley Trevelyan (1797-1879), lettered: Charles & Mary Trevelyan [i.e. Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan (1870-1958), & Mary Katharine, (m.1904).] Arms: Trevelyan impaling Bell. Not in Franks.. Binding: Embossed cloth; spine title: Jebb's treatises on attack and defence.
Provenance
Gift from Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan 3rd Bt
Makers and roles
Sir Joshua Jebb, KCB (1793-1863)