A GUIDE TO MILITARY ART – ROWLANDSON’S LOYAL LONDON VOLUNTEERS NEW HB FREE PP UK

A GUIDE TO MILITARY ART \u2013 ROWLANDSON\u2019S LOYAL LONDON VOLUNTEERS\nThe most original set of English military plates from the Napoleonic period \u2013 The Loyal Volunteers of London & Environs, Infantry & Cavalry, in their respective Uniforms. Representing the whole of the Manual, Platoon & Funeral Exercise in 89 plates. Designed and etched by T. Rowlandson and originally published in London during 1798-99 by Ackermann. Reproduced here from high from an original volume is a full set of Rowlandson\u2019s eighty-seven plates, together with an additional two that were to be included in some (even scarcer) bound volumes by the publisher. To accompany each plate, Ackermann prepared a page of letterpress which included details of when the corps had been formed, its uniform and names of officers. That text has been reproduced in full, together with additional notes prepared by Ray Westlake.\nIn this volume are presented some of Thomas Rowlandson\u2019s most elegant and eff.