Plate VIII- Artist study of nude male soldier with shield and sword - b40e928aeef11426be0a74540afbd5af

Engraved artist study depicts a nude male soldier holding a shield and sword. He wears a helmet with feather decoration. The most popular of William Salmon's numerous books, the title page refers to 25 plates within whereas other copies are also missing plates 3 and 10, as is the case with this particular copy. Select digitized content includes front cover, frontismatter, engraved portrait frontispiece of Salmon (age 27 in 1675), engraved title page (both by W. Sherwin) as well as recto and versos of extant copperplate engravings. Plates 22 and 23 are misbound between plates 17 and 18.