Cockle, M.J.D.

A Bibliography of Military Books Up to 1642. as New

      Holland Press, London, second edition, 1957 reprinted from the first. Cloth, 4to, xl, 268 pp. 960 entries. Captain Cockle's bibliography of British and foreign military books fully describes, with collations, many hundreds of works produced between the invention of printing and the year 1642, including printed editions of the classical technical writers. Apart from the major portion of works on he Military Art, there are sections devoted to such allied subjects as topography, pyrotechnics, military law and the ordinances of chivalry, medicine, fortifications, fencing, exercises for musket and pike, cavalry and equitation, artillery, and castramentation. This new edition of an invaluable standard work of reference, the only work of its kind, and which has been unobtainable for over 50 years, includes a lengthy preface and an introduction by Sir Charles Oman. "-from the blurb. New in dj.