A practical treatise on the attack of military posts, villages, intrenchments, &c.; . intended as a supplement to "The defence of outposts;" with a familiar explanation of the principles and practice of escalading. By Lieut.-Colonel Jebb, C.B., Royal Engineers.
Sir Joshua Jebb, KCB (1793-1863)
Category
Books
Date
1853
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Wallington, Northumberland
NT 3088216.2
Summary
Bibliographic description
viii,99,[1]p.,plates . ill.. . 8vo.. Bound with Jebb's Practical treatise on strengthening and defending outposts ...; and Practical treatise on the duties to be performed ... at a siege.. Provenance: manuscript on free 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.
Makers and roles
Sir Joshua Jebb, KCB (1793-1863)