A TREATISE ON COURTS MARTIAL: also an essay on military punishments and rewards.
Pp. [x](including advertisement leaf)+253(mispaginated 237)+[1](advertisement); cr. 12mo; modern half brown leather, spine lettered in gilt, marbled papered boards; later endpapers, retaining the book label of David Levine, Sydney, and the earlier armorial bookplate of Richard Strachey on the upper pastedown, occasional slight soiling, a little light foxing and browning, Vernor, Hood and Sharpe, Longman, Hurst, Rees and Green, [and others], London, 1810. Eighth edition. *Stephen Payne Adye (c. 1740-1704) served for a time as brigade-major of artillery in North America. His book on courts-martial, first published at New York, in 1769 [ESTC W29567], was reprinted several times, with later editions modified by editors. Sir Richard Strachey (1817-1908) was a British soldier and Indian administrator whose children included the Bloomsbury writer and critic Lytton Strachey. Item #179964
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