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The List of Plates shows (slightly) different texts from the captions in the plates themselves.
The List of Illustrations is incomplete, and not all illustrations have the captions listed in the List of Illustrations. In some cases the hyperlink will point to the first of a number of illustrations listed under a single name.
The sometimes slight difference in wording between the Table of Contents and the actual chapter headings has been retained.
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Textual remarks
Page 12, snaphaunce is not a Dutch word; it is derived from the Dutch snaphaan.
Page 64, footnote: the original does not show the footnote anchor; the footnote has been included without its anchor. Possibly the footnote refers to the Point Blank Range data for the 10-inch and 8-inch howitzers.
Page 239, price calculations: the total for single guns should be 19s. 9d. The other amounts given in the text do not correspond with the table; this has not been changed.
Page 240, price calculations: the totals for double and single guns should be 16s. 3d. and 9s. 9d., respectively.
Page 13 (first set of advertisements), amount of shooting is possibly an error for account of shooting.
French accents have not been corrected or added (AndrÊ, Minie, Èpanouissement, etc.), Latin accents have been retained, unless mentioned below.

Changes made to the text
Footnotes and illustrations have been moved; some illustrations have been rotated 90°
Some missing/incorrect punctuation has been added or corrected silently
Page vii: Polygroove changed to Poly-groove as elsewhere
Page ix: Firelock changed to Fire-lock as in the the text
Page xi: Badajoz changed to Badajos; Mallett changed to Mallet (2x) as in the text
Page xvi: manufactury changed to manufactory as in the text
Page 5: a cubic distance changed to a cubit distance
Page 8: likwise changed to likewise
Page 23: suphuretted changed to sulphuretted
Page 27 (table): 9.90 changed to 9·90
Page 42: horizonal changed to horizontal
Page 63: almost from a class changed to almost form a class
Page 91: enginering changed to engineering
Page 131: impres changed to impress
Page 139: fusees changed to fuses
Page 140: wthin changed to within
Page 154: furnance changed to furnace
Page 159: is is changed to is
Page 160: exhibibits changed to exhibits
Page 166: Ther changed to There
Page 169: 1·40265 changed to 1·40625
Page 211: fustrum changed to frustum
Page 219: Weimer changed to Weimar
Page 229: artizan changed to artisan
Page 239: Wedgebury changed to Wednesbury as elsewhere
Page 249: twent changed to twenty
Page 271: answert hat changed to answer that
Page 301: expansive powder changed to expansive power
Page 303: impossibity changed to impossibility
Page 317: filed changed to filled
Page 356: frustrum changed to frustum
Page 358: frustrum changed to frustum
Page 436: to to changed to to
Page 5 (first set of advertisements): STEEET changed to STREET
Page 8 (first set of advertisements): BRMINGHAM changed to BIRMINGHAM
Page 3 (second set of advertisements): Gobe changed to Globe
Page 5 (second set of advertisements): Bouchier changed to Bourchier