Phipps, John

12mo, FIRST EDITION, 5 folding plates (3 of which colour), one full-page plate, 11pp. and two folding forms, 1p. publisher's advertisement at end; [with:] Fortune, Thomas. The Artillerist's Companion, containing the discipline, returns, reports, pay, provision, &c. of that Corps, in field, in forts, at sea, &c. Printed for J. Millan, 1778, FIRST EDITION; bound together as issued, contemporary speckled calf, spine slightly rubbed and cracked, ink ownership inscription on title ("Bateman") and stamp on contents leaf

ESTC N47622 and T114713

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RARE, the first title being based on General Humphrey Bland's 1727 Treatise on Military Discipline, a work which, as Phipps states in his preface, "every officer should be furnished with [in] a pocket volume". These two titles were sold together for a price of 4s, compared to 1s for The Artillerist's Companion separately; such military drills and manuals were widely read and of great importance in the training of an officer class which often had no experience of warfare and little in else in the way of formal preparation for service.