8vo. [4], 7-43pp. With an engraved frontispiece, numerous engraved illustrations in the text, and a terminal page of publisher's advertisements. Modern red half-calf, red cloth boards, tooled and lettered in gilt, T.E.G. Very minor shelf-wear. Marbled endpapers, very occasional light spotting.

An early eighteenth-century edition - published at the height of the French invasion scare - of a martial vade mecum providing concise instruction on the mode of drilling British Volunteer Corps troops.

In addition to drill instruction, the work contains 'Several Positions in general Use in the Army, though not strictly in the Manual, nor fully treated of in any other recent Publication'. The well-executed engravings depict the numerous positions of a soldier under arms, with captions providing direction for performing each motion.

OCLC records copies of the fifth edition at just two locations (BL and NLA). ESTC locates two copies of the second edition published in 1798 (BL and NYPL). All other editions are apparently unrecorded, at least under this title.