ROYAL MILITARY ACADEMY; WOOLWICHBiblio.com
Rules and Orders for the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich;
1764159337London: Printed by J. Bullock J. Spencer and J. Bullock junr. 1764. Good officers of Artillery and perfect Engineers Presented in a handsome period morocco a pair of notably scarce editions of regulations pertaining to the Royal Military Academy Woolwich; comprising the second recorded edition of the rules for the institution as a whole following that of 1741 together with the seemingly sole edition of the statutes relevant to officer-cadets specifically. We have traced no copy of either on auction records. The Academy - or "The Shop" as it was known colloquially - was established by Royal Warrant in 1741 for the training of "good officers of Artillery and perfect Engineers" its "gentlemen cadets" initially ranging in age between ten and thirty. The curriculum focused on mathematical theory and the scientific principles of gunnery and fortification employed to a practical end. It closed in 1939 and reopened in 1947 as the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. The present regulations were drawn up under the eye of John Manners marquess of Granby 1721-1770 who in 1763 became master-general of the ordnance; another edition was put out in 1776. Quarto 225 x 173 mm. Contemporary red morocco decorative gilt spine sides with gilt border comprising a dog-tooth roll enclosing a broad panel formed of multiple tools including stars and circlets gilt edge roll and turn-ins Nonpareil pattern marbled endpapers gilt edges. Binding a trifle rubbed and marked gilt at head of front board dulled and a little wormed loss to lower compartment of spine boards just slightly splayed internally clean and crisp; withal an attractive copy. ESTC T93638 & T93392; an online search shows copies of the first mentioned work at 13 institutional libraries: BL Scotland St Andrews Strathclyde Wellcome Yale Society of the Cincinnati Auburn Temple Dalhousie Mount Saint Vincent Czartoryski Krakow and Queensland; the second at 10 libraries: BL Scotland St Andrews Strathclyde Society of the Cincinnati Auburn Temple Dalhousie Mount Saint Vincent and Queensland. hardcover
Peter Harrington · Royaume-Uni1 850,00 £GB≈ 2 112,33 €
