BLACKWELL (John).
A Compendium of Military Discipline,
WITH PLATES BY WILLIAM HOGARTH
John Blackwell was adjutant and clerk in the Artillery Company of the City of London. He was appointed second adjutant in 1724 and made a trustee of the Company in 1728.
The work commences with a historical overview of the Honourable Artillery Company of the City of London, and reprints the 1537 Royal Charter establishing it. It states that Company’s purpose was “for military exercise and training and for the better defence of the realm“ and gives directions for completing a battalion or company, plus exercise of the firelock and bayonet, et al. The work documents how the capital was to be defended in the early eighteenth century. It is considerably enhanced by the two folding plates by William Hogarth.
ESTC N4675 lists copies at Guildhall, the Honourable Artillery Company, Auckland, Folger, NYPL, Society of the Cincinnati, Michigan, and the David M. Stewart Museum.
Index to British Military Prints 1500-1914, no.113.
