MILITARY ANTIQUITIES respecting a History of the English Army; from the Conquest to the Present Time. A new edition with material additions & improvements.
[and] A TREATISE ON ANCIENT ARMOUR AND WEAPONS, illustrated by plates taken from the Original Armour in the Tower of London, and other Arsenals, Museums, and Cabinets. In two volumes [with the second work bound at the end of Volume II]. Volume One: Pp. [ii]+viii+412, engraved frontispiece, title page vignette and 52 plates; Volume Two: Pp. [ii]+382(numbered to 372 and including additional pages *229-*234, directions for placing cuts and the title page to A Treatise on Ancient Armour), 2 engraved frontispieces and title page vignettes, plus 86 plates (61 in the second work), appendices, index; demy 4to; nineteenth century diced calf, spines lettered and decorated in gilt compartments, boards with decorative gilt borders and edges, the joints tender, fore-corners lightly worn; ribbon markers; marbled edges and matching endpapers; hinges starting, scattered light foxing and occasional slight soiling; printed for T. Egerton, Whitehall; & G. Kearsley, Fleet Street, London, 1801. Second edition. *With the bookplate of Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Irish playwright, politician, and owner of the London Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, on the upper pastedowns. Most recently from the collection of David Levine, Sydney, whose book label is also on the upper pastedowns. First published in 1786. Item #179333
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