Military instructions for officers detached in the field: containing, a scheme for forming a corps of a partisan. Illustrated with plans of the manoeuvres necessary in carrying on the petite guerre. [One line in Latin from Ovid] By Roger Stevenson, Esq;

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stevenson, Roger 25427

Language:

English

Physical Description:

[8],vii,[1],232,[4]p., xii leaves of plates (7folded) : ill. ; 12°.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Printed and sold by R. Aitken, printer and bookseller, opposite the London Coffee-House, Front-Street. M.DCC.LXXV. (Price, bound, seven shillings and six-pence.), [1775]

Notes:

"Edited by Hugh Henry Ferguson."--Evans. Dedicated to George Washington by the editor.

Parentheses substituted for square brackets in imprint.

Plate VII signed: [Robert] Aitken, sculp.

Two states of the title page noted. In one, the imprint reads "[Price, bound, seven shillings and six-pence.]". In the other it reads "[Price, bound, six shillings and six-pence.]".

Error in numbering: plates VII, VIII misnumbered VIII, VII.

Local Notes:

HSP in LCP.

Cited in:

Evans 14475; Hildeburn, C.R. Pennsylvania, 3290