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Second Edition.
Fifteen-seventy-three.
5o» Certaine
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wayes for the ordering [g reversed] of Souldiours
in battelray, and setting
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of battayles . . .
^ Imprinted
at London by \
W. Williamson: for Ihon Wight.
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Anno. 1573.
Black letter.
Quarto.
Collation. A reprint of the ed. of 1562.— Tp., Ai, has pfeces at top
and bottom.—Col.: " IT Imprinted at London, by W. Williamson : for Ihon
Wight, fl Anno salutis. m.d.lxxiii. Mense. Septembris", N4, verso blank.
—No device.—The same plates as in ist ed., but different w^oodcut initials.
—Nums. to fF.—
36 11. to p.—Unlike the ist ed., this has tailpieces.
Cofies. B.M.; W.O.
Third Edition. Fifteen-eighty-eight.
Certaine Waies |
for the ordering of Souldi- [
ours in
battelray, and setting of bat- |
tailes, . . . ^ Imprinted at
London by
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Thomas
East : for \
Ihon Wight, \
1588.
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Black letter.
Quarto.
Collation as in 2nd ed. ; but there is no Col., N4 being blank.—This ed.
is distinguished from both the ist and 2nd by the absence of the abbreviation
" Fol." before the num. on each f., and from the 2nd by the form of the
tailpieces, which in that consist of two short pieces laid one above the other,
" and in this are diversified.—35 and 36 11. to p.
Copies. B.M. ; Roy. Art. Inst.
Contents. A treatise printed at the end of the eds. 1560, 1573 ^^'^ '5^^
of the author's trans, of Macchiavelli. (V. No. 12.)
Owing, perhaps, to its having been brought out merely as a supplement
to the " Art of War," Whitehorne's book has almost been lost sight of as
a separate work. It supplies information on the subje6ls not treated of by
Macchiavelli, that is to say, on Fortification, and the manner of making
gunpowder, saltpeter, fireworks, etc. This information is coUefted chiefly
from Italian writers ;
nevertheless Whitehorne must be allowed the honour
of being the first Englishman to write on these subjefts, though, as regards
" Fireworks," it is Bourne (see No. 24) to whom the credit is usually given.
There is an interesting chapter on signalling, based on the ancient systems
of ^neas Ta6ticus and Polybius.
1 4. Fifteen-sixty-three. Onosander.
Onosandro Platonico, of the Generall Captaine, and of
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his office, translated out [
of Greke into Italyan, by Fabio
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Cotta, a Ro- mayne
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talian into Eng- |
lysh,
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