Defensive Instructions for the People: Containing the New and Improved Combination of Arms, Called Foot Lancers; Miscellaneous Instructions on the Subject of Small Arms and Ammunition, Street and House Fighting, and Field Fortification

Confirmed as London: J. Smith, 1832. Yale records the full imprint at 1 Bouverie Street, Fleet Street, with 8, 72 pages and 5 folded leaves of plates; Google Books metadata reports 80 pages. Modern references vary between the author forms Maceroni and Macerone; the authority is normalized here as Francis Maceroni, with title-page/formal catalog variants noted.

Quality phase 101a: physical extent recovered from the existing bibliographic note.

Quality phase 186: city corrected from Madrid to London. Yale records five folded leaves; another collated first-edition copy reports six folding plates, five coloured. The discrepancy is preserved.

Quality phase 291: The exact London 1832 Yale collation confirms the five folded plate leaves already recorded.

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