8vo. 56pp. With an engraved frontispiece (The French mode of pointing cannon as practised at Valenciennes during the siege of 1793). A reissue with cancel title page of edition with 'Hercules-Hall, Lambeth, London' in title and 'Printed for the author' in imprint. Original publisher's marbled paper wrappers. Worn and marked. Long tear and naive paper repair to leaf C3 - touching text, but without loss of sense.

The second and final edition, printed in the same year as the first, of a succinct series of observations on the infantry and cavalry drills of the British Army by veteran of the, then still ongoing, French Revolutionary Wars, Philip Astley (1742-1814), more common remembered as an equestrian performer and circus proprietor. Astley provides observations on, inter alia, 'small bodies advancing into an enemy's country', 'the use and formation of dragoon swords', and 'diseases incidental to horses during a campaign'.

ESTC records a single copy in the British Isles (Liverpool), and none elsewhere. ESTC records copies of the first edition at two locations (BL and Honourable Artillery Company).