A bibliography of English military books up to 1642 and of ...

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Collation. Tp., Ai, enclosed in fine woodcut border, reproduced as frontispiece
to this catalogue,—Ded. to Queen Elizabeth, a2-4.—Cts., Ggig-Hhi.
" The first [-seventh]
—Device of the printer, John Kingston, Hhij.—R.H. :
booke,"—Nums. to fF. i-cix.—Sigs. in 4% a, A-Z, Aa-Hh2, which is blank.
—37 11. to p.—Tailpiece representing a sleeping camp, Eei ; tables and
diagrams, Eeij-Gga.—For Col. v. the "Addition" (No. 13, ist ed.).
Copies. B.M. J
Bod.
Second Edition.
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Arte of Warre,
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Quarto.
m.d.lxxiii.
,- Collation. A reprint of the 1560 ed.—The border of tp. and diags. are
from the plates of ist ed., but there is no tailpiece on Ee i, and no device; the
woodcut initials, too, are different.—Table ends on Gg4.—Nums. to fF. in
roman. — 36 11. to p.—For Col. v. No. 13 (2nd ed.).
apies. B.M.J W.O.
Third Edition.
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1588.
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A reprint of the 1573 ^^'—Tp. has the borders of the previous
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eds.—New woodcut initials, and the tailpiece of 1st ed. absent.—Nums. to fF.
in arable.— 36 11. to p.—This has an addition of a folding diag. of the
embattling of an army.—For Col. v. No. 13 (3rd ed.).
Copies. B.M. ; Roy. Art. Inst. ; Bod.
Contents. The title, "Art of War," is a common one in these early books,
and it usually indicates that the work gives information on all branches
tadlics, fortification, artillery, etc. The treatise in question takes a high place
amongst contemporary works, and remained in use as a text-book for a
long period ; it was a favourite book of Frederick the Great. On this
alone of the foreign writings mentioned here was conferred the honour of a
translation twice reissued. Macchiavelli's knowledge of his subjedl is all the
more remarkable when we take into account that he was not by profession a
soldier, but a diplomatist.
Soldiers have attacked his
description of a battle on the ground that it is
the work of one who had never seen what he describes, but the account is
too circumstantial to have been drawn from the imagination, and Macchiavelli
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