The compleat body of the art military: exactly compiled, and gradually composed for the foot, in the best refined manner, according to the practice of the modern times. Divided into three books: the first, conteining the postures of the pike and musket, ... The second, comprehending twelve exercises. ... The third, setting forth the drawing up & exercising of regiments, ... Together with the duties of all private souldiers and officers in a regiment, from a sentinel to a collonel. ... Illustrated with variety of figures, of battail, ...
Richard Elton (fl.1650)
Category
Books
Date
1659
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Felbrigg, Norfolk
NT 3222602
Summary
Bibliographic description
The second edition with new additions, by Richard Elton, Lievtenant Collonel.. [24],192, [8] p., [7] leaves of plates (chiefly fold.) :. port. ;. fol. Former seventeenth-century shelfmarks[?] on endpaper in ink: "C-1 but T-1". Juvenile ink scribbles to final page. Binding: early eighteenth-century sheep; double blind fillet border, with blind quarter roll; six raised bands; twentieth-century[?] paper spine label.
Makers and roles
Richard Elton (fl.1650)