THE THEORIKE AND PRACTIKE OF MODERNE WARRES, Discoursed in Dialogue wise. Wherein is declared the neglect of Martiall discipline:
the inconuenience thereof: the imperfections of manie training Captaines: a redresse by due regard had: the fittest weapons for our Moderne Warre: the use of the same: the parts of a perfect souldier in generall and in particular: the Officers in degrees, with their seuerall duties: the imbattailing of men in formes now most in use: with figures and Tables to the same: with sundrie other martiall points. Written by Robert Barret. Comprehended in sixe Bookes. Pp. [viii]+248(occasionally mispaginated)+[vi](table of 'forrain words', coat of arms), printer's device on title page, full page arms of Henry Herbert, Earl of Pembroke (the dedicatee) on verso of title page, the Barret coat of arms on the final page, numerous text figures of military formations including a folding leaf (sig. O) depicting encampments, decorative headpieces and initials, tables; small f'cap folio, in sixes; contemporary limp vellum with remains of leather ties and signs (but no remnant) of a clasp at fore-edges, early manuscript titling at head of spine, the vellum lightly soiled and wrinkled; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown, the upper hinge tender, early inked signature at head of title page, a few faint marginal damp stains; printed for William Ponsonby, London, 1598. STC 1500; ESTC S106853; Cockle 68. *'A compilation from foreign writers. It is said that Shakespeare in the passage "The gallant militarist that had the whole theoric of war in the knot of his scarf, and the practice in the chaps of his dagger" (All's Well That Ends Well, act iv, scene iii), was alluding to this book' [Cockle, page 57]. The table of 'forrain words' at the end is effectively the first English glossary of military terminology preceding the anonymously published Military Dictionary of 1702. Item #169787
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