Description
8vo, pp. [ii], 74. Disbound, portion of leather spine retained. Some light soiling, final leaf almost loose.
A Modest Defence of the Army. By a Soldier. In Answer to a Late Pamphlet, intitled, A Treatise concerning the Militia.
- London: Printed for W. Owen 1753
- ESTC T140940.
£350
Notes
A rare pamphlet answering Charles Sackville, Duke of Dorset's 'Treatise Concerning Militia' of the previous year, which had argued for a reduction in the size of the army. ESTC locates just four copies in the UK and four in the USA: 2 in the BL, one each in Cambridge and the Rylands, plus the BPL, Huntington, Colorado, and Yale.
