or, a militarie magazine of the truest rules, and ablest instructions, for the managing of warre...
London, printed by Iohn Dawson, and are to be sold by Francis Eglesfield at the signe of the Marigold in Pauls Church-yard, 1639
The Earl of Macclesfield's copy. The first edition of this comprehensive pre-Civil War encyclopaedia of military knowledge and tactics compiled by Robert Ward.
Little is known of the author beyond what we are told in the work: that he was a 'Gent[leman] and Commander', who had served under the Lord Lieutenants of Essex, Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick, and William Maynard, 1st Baron Maynard, to whom the epistle is addressed, and that he was moved to write in response to the Thirty Years' War — that 'grim Monster [which] hath violently broken downe the Pale of prosperity in our Neighbouring Kingdomes' (Epistle Dedicatorie). Warwick would go on to become Charles I's leading antagonist in the Long Parliament called in 1640, helping to secure the attainder and execution of the King's favourite, the Earl of Stafford, the following year, and the backing of the Scottish Covenanter rebels for the Parliamentarian cause.
Anima'dversions is divided into twenty-two sections, encompassing all aspects of war from victualling and castrametation, to the use of artillery, mining, the duties of respective officers and men, drill and cavalry exercises, war engines, military laws and regulations, and fighting formations. Richly illustrated throughout with woodcut designs and plans, many full-page, including a folding plan on the 'manner and order observed in the Siege and defence of a Fort'.
'As a book of reference on nearly all branches of the military this will be found of the greatest value' (Cockle). This was evidently the view of Francis Grose, who quoted extensively from Ward's comments on the 'office and duty of every officer' in his own Military Antiquities published over a century later.
A handsome copy in eighteenth-century tree calf with excellent provenance for the Earls of Macclesfield.
First edition; 2 parts in 1 vol.; folio (30 x 20 cm); armorial bookplates to front pastedown and front free endpaper recto, blindstamp to title and [*2], engraved additional title, folding table, 2 woodcut plans, 1 folding, the other full-page with accompanying letterpress f., numerous woodcut illustrations in-text, woodcut initials, head and tailpieces, early MS correction in pen to G6, a few ff. folded with edges untrimmed, G6 cancel, A4 corner torn away with minor loss of text' 18th-century tree calf, spine gilt in 8 compartments, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece, all edges stained yellow, minor wear to extremities, otherwise near fine; [28], 90, [2], 91-394, [2], 101, [7]pp.
Cockle 147; ESTC S118037.
Little is known of the author beyond what we are told in the work: that he was a 'Gent[leman] and Commander', who had served under the Lord Lieutenants of Essex, Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick, and William Maynard, 1st Baron Maynard, to whom the epistle is addressed, and that he was moved to write in response to the Thirty Years' War — that 'grim Monster [which] hath violently broken downe the Pale of prosperity in our Neighbouring Kingdomes' (Epistle Dedicatorie). Warwick would go on to become Charles I's leading antagonist in the Long Parliament called in 1640, helping to secure the attainder and execution of the King's favourite, the Earl of Stafford, the following year, and the backing of the Scottish Covenanter rebels for the Parliamentarian cause.
Anima'dversions is divided into twenty-two sections, encompassing all aspects of war from victualling and castrametation, to the use of artillery, mining, the duties of respective officers and men, drill and cavalry exercises, war engines, military laws and regulations, and fighting formations. Richly illustrated throughout with woodcut designs and plans, many full-page, including a folding plan on the 'manner and order observed in the Siege and defence of a Fort'.
'As a book of reference on nearly all branches of the military this will be found of the greatest value' (Cockle). This was evidently the view of Francis Grose, who quoted extensively from Ward's comments on the 'office and duty of every officer' in his own Military Antiquities published over a century later.
A handsome copy in eighteenth-century tree calf with excellent provenance for the Earls of Macclesfield.
First edition; 2 parts in 1 vol.; folio (30 x 20 cm); armorial bookplates to front pastedown and front free endpaper recto, blindstamp to title and [*2], engraved additional title, folding table, 2 woodcut plans, 1 folding, the other full-page with accompanying letterpress f., numerous woodcut illustrations in-text, woodcut initials, head and tailpieces, early MS correction in pen to G6, a few ff. folded with edges untrimmed, G6 cancel, A4 corner torn away with minor loss of text' 18th-century tree calf, spine gilt in 8 compartments, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece, all edges stained yellow, minor wear to extremities, otherwise near fine; [28], 90, [2], 91-394, [2], 101, [7]pp.
Cockle 147; ESTC S118037.
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