72pp. With six terminal engraved diagrams and two leaves of sheet music for bugle.

[Bound with:] Regulations and Instructions for the infantry sword exercise. London. Printed by William Clowes, 1807. 63pp. With half-title and large folding diagram.

8vo. Contemporary gilt-tooled half-calf, marbled paper boards, contrasting morocco lettering-piece. Rubbed and marked, surface wear to boards, lower joint starting. Armorial bookplate of Thomas Francis Freemantle to FEP. Early inked ownership inscriptions to head of FFEP and title page, manuscript copy of title text to front blank fly-leaf in the same hand, scattered spotting.

The new edition of the British Army light infantry manual, bound together with a detailed set of contemporary regulations and instructions for the infantry sword exercise. The original author of the work, denoted in the preface as simply 'a German officer of distinction', is in fact the Prussian-born Lieutenant Colonel Francis de Rottenburg, who laid down these regulations for the Royal American Regiment. The terminal diagrams include several reference sheets depicting ideal formations of advancement, retreat, and skirmish, as well as two leaves of sheet music titled 'Signals of the Bugle Horn, in the Movements of Light Troops'. Preceding the second bound work is a large folding diagram illustrating in full the three positions, two motions, and seven guard movements of infantry sword technique.