With the Colours; or, the piping times of peace ... With illustrations by R. Simkin
A comic account of British peacetime army life written by Richard Mounteney Jephson and illustrated by the military artist Richard Simkin, published by G. Routledge & Sons in London in 1881 for a general reading public. The forty captioned plates are wood-engraved line drawings of mounted officers, rearing horses, barrack-room mishaps and parade-ground groups, offering uniform detail, horse anatomy and ready-made caption-and-frame layouts.
