Military instructions: : including each particular motion of the manual and platoon exercises; / elucidated with very minute drawings by Mr. R. K. Porter; and dedicated with permission to Lieutenant General The Earl of Harrington. By David Roberts, Lieutenant and Acting Adjutant of the First Regiment of Life Guards.
David Roberts (1757-1819)
Category
Books
Date
1798
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3100830
Summary
Bibliographic description
[8], 36 p., XXIV leaves of plates ; 4to. Historic shelfmark on front pastedown: "D 10" [pencil, crossed through]. Booksellers' notes in pencil on front pastedown: "Presentation Copy" and "24 plates". Pencil numbers "346" and "23" on front pastedown. Provenance: Pencil initials "J.N.H."[?] on front pastedown with pencil date[?] "25.2.13". Manuscript inscription on front free endpaper: "Col: Clitheroe with Mr. Porter's best compliments" [i.e. from the artist, Robert Ker Porter (1777-1842)]. Nineteenth-century manuscript inscription on front free endpaper: "R.[?] W. Militia". Twentieth-century armorial bookplate, signed G.S. 24 [1924]: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Broughton’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Late eighteenth-century tree calf; sewn onto four recessed cords; remnants of gilt tooled spine; gilt rolled board edges.
Makers and roles
David Roberts (1757-1819), author Sir Robert Ker Porter (Durham 1777 - St Petersburg 1842) , illustrator