An essay on the command of small detachments : with eight copper plates.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Young, William, Sir, 1725?-1788, author.

Contributor:

Millan, John, -1782, bookseller.

Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Military art and science--Officers' handbooks--Early works to 1800.

Military art and science.

Genre:

Booksellers' advertisements.

Penn Provenance:

Archer Houblon, H. L. (Henry Lindsay), 1877-1954 (autograph) (Smith copy)

Fergusson, Bernard, 1911-1980 (bookplate) (Smith copy)

Melvill, Robert (autograph) (Smith copy)

Physical Description:

29, [3] pages, [8] pages of plates : illustrations ; 17 cm (8vo)

Fingerprint:

chng rah. lept sifo (3) 1766 (R)

Place of Publication:

[London] : Printed for J. Millan, near Whitehall, MDCCLXVI [1766]

Notes:

"Anonymous; by Major William Young. Collected with other pieces, some of which bear his name, in 'Manoeuvres, or practical observations on the art of war' (1776)."--English short title catalogue.

Signatures: B-E⁴.

Type ornament title ornament.

"[Price Two Shillings.]"--Title leaf.

Errata on leaf E3r.

Bookseller's advertisements on verso of title leaf and leaves E3v-E4v

Local Notes:

Smith copy: illustrations hand-colored by a reader in red, yellow, brown and green.

Smith copy purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2025 from Amanda Hall.

Smith copy has dated 20th-century autograph ("HL Archer Houblon. The Buffs. June 1904") of Henry Lindsay Archer Houblon (né Eyre; 1877-1954), an officer of The Buffs (East Kent Regiment), on front pastedown; armorial bookplate ("BERNARD EDWARD FERGUSSON") of Bernard Fergusson (1911-1980) on front free endpaper; dated 18th-century autograph ("Robert Melvill 1767") on verso of blank leaf following front free endpaper.

Smith copy has bookseller's description of this copy laid in.

Smith copy: front free endpaper detached and laid in.

Cited in:

English short title catalogue T57063

OCLC:

518916009