Animadversions of warre; or a militarie magazine of the truest rules, and ablest instructions, for the managing of warre : composed of the most refined discipline, and choice experiments that these late Netherlandish, and Swedish warres have produced. With divers new inventions, both of fortifications and strategems. As also sundry collections taken out of the most approved authors, ancient and moderne, either in greeke, latine, italian, french, spanish, dutch or english. In two books
Robert Ward's 1639 military treatise, printed in London by John Dawson, sets out rules, fortification designs and campaign strategy drawn from recent Netherlandish and Swedish wars for officers and soldiers. Its pictures are small decorative woodcut initials, each framing a letter with figures, foliage, a sun, a bird or a seated scholar, which a designer could draw on for border ornament and historical capital letters.
