Norwood, Fortification: or, Architecture military, 1694

NORWOOD, RICHARD

Fortification: or, Architecture military. London: printed for Richard Mount, 1694

4to (190 x 140mm.), one folding woodcut plate, 2 folding tables, woodcut illustrations, errata leaf at end, first leaf blank, contemporary calf, damp-stained, fore-edge of title slightly cut down, spine worn

This is the second edition of the first full-scale work to be written on fortification in English. First published in 1639 (see lot 80), this second edition is rare, ESTC listing just three copies, and no copies have appeared at auction for over forty years.

LITERATURE:

ESTC R202018; cf. Cockle 145 (first edition)

PROVENANCE:

The Gift of Mr. Thomas Heatley, Citizen and Iron-monger of London, to the Mathematical School in Christ's Hospital, Anno Dom. 1700, large printed book label