Defensive instructions for the people: containing the new and improved combination of arms, called foot lancers; miscellaneous instructions on the subject of small arms and ammunition, street and house fighting, and field fortification.
London.
Printed and published by J. Smith, [1832].
First edition.
8vo.
8, 72pp. With a folding hand-coloured engraved frontispiece, a further four folding lithographed colour plates, and an engraved folding plan. Original publisher's cloth-backed buff paper boards, printed paper lettering-piece to spine. Rubbed, marked, and bumped, early inked ownership inscription to upper board, corners exposed. Offsetting to title page, scattered spotting.
The first edition of soldier and mechanical inventor Francis Maceroni's (1788-1856) martial physical-force pamphlet describing the employment of his 'new and improved combination of arms'; that is the paring of a fowling piece and a ten-foot lance for street fighting, principally adapted to counter invasion by enemy land forces.
In his Memoirs (1838), Maceroni states that he encountered great difficulty in finding a printer for the pamphlet, which he published without any return at a time in which he was living in penury.
£ 250.00
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In his Memoirs (1838), Maceroni states that he encountered great difficulty in finding a printer for the pamphlet, which he published without any return at a time in which he was living in penury.
