A bibliography of English military books up to 1642 and of ...
A bibliography of English military books up to 1642 and of ...
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Odlavo.<br />
Collation. Ai missing.—Woodcut <strong>of</strong> battle-scene <strong>and</strong> title below, Aa.<br />
Text begins A22.—Col., G4: "|[ Imprynted by me Robert Wyer dwellynge<br />
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—Wyer's<br />
large device, G42.—Sigs. in 4', A-G.—Without preliminary matter, pag.<br />
orR.H.<br />
Very rare. Mr. Plomer* had not jeen a copy. Ames describes one in<br />
the collection <strong>of</strong> Mr. Thomas Martin <strong>of</strong> Palgrave, Suffolk, <strong>of</strong> which the first<br />
leaf was missing, as in the case <strong>of</strong> the copy I have examined, which was sold<br />
by auction in London, Feb., 1898, for £2$ lox. A MS. note places its date<br />
at between 15^5-30.<br />
1556.<br />
Robert Wyer is thought <strong>to</strong> have ceased publishing in<br />
Fifteen-thirty-nine. Frontinus, Sextus Julius.<br />
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tegemes, Sleygh-<br />
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tes, <strong>and</strong> policies <strong>of</strong><br />
warre, gathered <strong>to</strong>gyther, by<br />
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S. Julius Fronti-<br />
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nus, <strong>and</strong><br />
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slated in<strong>to</strong><br />
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En-<br />
*• Anno. M.D.xxxix.<br />
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Odavo.<br />
Collation. Tp., ai.—Ded. <strong>to</strong> Henry VIII., z2-by—Cts., a62-8.—Col.<br />
priuilegio<br />
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ad imprimen-<br />
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dum<br />
solum. Anno, m.d.xxxix.", N8.—R.H. :<br />
" Sex.<br />
lul. Front. Liber. . . ."—No pag,—Sigs, in 8% a, A-N.—26 11. <strong>to</strong> p.<br />
Copies, B.M. (two).<br />
Contents. This trans, is from the French version <strong>of</strong> Paris, 1 536, fol. To<br />
fill <strong>up</strong> some blank pages at the end, the printer has added some " general<br />
rules <strong>of</strong> war, taken out <strong>of</strong> Vegetius."<br />
The " Stratagems " had been preceded, as Frontinus says himself in his<br />
Preface, by another. work on the <strong>military</strong> art, now lost, which iEIian' had<br />
seen. The work is not so much a treatise on war as a colle^lion <strong>of</strong> anecdotes,<br />
made "in order that readers might h^ve under their h<strong>and</strong>s examples <strong>of</strong><br />
address <strong>and</strong> prudence which might be <strong>of</strong> use <strong>to</strong> them in planning <strong>and</strong> carrying<br />
on in an emergency similar stratagems." The three <strong>books</strong> give instances<br />
respedHvely <strong>of</strong> what should be done, before, during, <strong>and</strong> after a battle ; they<br />
^re each subdivided in<strong>to</strong> twelve or thirteen short chapters. The fourth book<br />
contains anecdotes illustrating <strong>military</strong> virtues. At the Renaissance Frontinus<br />
was only less a favourite than Vegetius. Besides the numerous Latin<br />
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Henry R. Plomer's " Robert Wyer." (London, 1897, 4'-)<br />
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