Fores, New Manual & Platoon Exercises..., 1798, later brown calf

FORES, SAMUEL WILLIAM

Fores's New Manual & Platoon Exercises Corrected from the latest regulations by Command of his Royal Highness, the Duke of York. [London:] S.W. Fores, 1798

4to (185 x 155mm.), 23 hand-coloured panels laid-down to individual leaves, later brown calf gilt by Riviere, some spotting and browning, upper hinge splitting, minor loss to joints at foot, loss to lower corner

Originally issued as a single broadside, the individual panels have been laid down to create a book format. A former owner has attributed the plates to Thomas Rowlandson, though this is unlikely.

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