[Rarebooks] FS: Infantry Exercises (Beat the drum slowly)

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We are pleased to offer today:

[Scarlett, J. Yorke].  Field Exercise & Evolutions of Infantry. London: 
Queen’s Printer [Eyre and Spottiswoode], 1862.  Pocket edition.  12vo., 
full calf with impressed gilt arms and title, still bearing brass front 
cover clasp (missing back cover clasp and tongue); 537 pp., illustrated 
by 63 largely full-page line drawings, endpapers with publisher’s 
catalogue and advert’s.  Not a book for the library but for the 
haversacks of subalterns, best described as a well-kept field copy 
(several early pages nibbled along the top margins, minor damp stains, 
rubricated edges faded) but generally clean and tight. Begins with 
instruction of recruits and concludes with conduct of funeral parties 
(“In marching back, music not to play, or drums to beat, until the party 
is entirely clear of the burying ground.”). 175 USD

Cordially,

William Van Nest

Trillium Antiquarian Books
1285 Albertus Avenue
Peterborough, ON  K9J 6A4
Canada
705-749-0461
trilliumbooks at sympatico.ca

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