2. Fifteen head pieces for "The _Roman_ Military Punishments, by _John Beaver_, Esq. _London_. From the happy Revolution, Anno xxxvii." (i. e. 1725.) Small quarto, pp. 155. From the preface it should seem that the author had been Judge Advocate. The book is divided into seventeen chapters, each of which, except the second, third, seventh, and twelfth, have small head-pieces prefixed, of ancient military punishments, in the manner of _Callot's_ Small Miseries of War. _W. Hogarth inv. & sculp._ In 1779, were first sold by a printseller ten of these prints, together with two others not in the book, being scenes of modern war; a pair of drums being in one, and a soldier armed with a musket in the other. Thus are there three prints in the book not in this set; viz. Chap. 9. Soldiers sold for slaves. 10. Degradation. 16. Banishment. There is also in the title-page a little figure of a _Roman_ General sitting; probably done by _Hogarth_, though his name is not under it. In the year 1774, these plates were in the possession of a Button-manufacturer at _Birmingham_. There are only eleven, one of them being engraved on both sides. They were given by him, however, to my informant, who parted with them to _S. Harding_ an engraver, who sold them to _Humphry_ the printseller near _Temple-Bar_, their present proprietor. How they fell into the hands of the _Birmingham_ manufacturer (who took off a few impressions from them), is unknown. Query. Does the plate engraved on both sides contain the two modern designs? In a Catalogue of Books sold by _W. Bathoe_, was included "Part of the Collection of the late ingenious _W. Hogarth_, Esq. Serjeant Painter to his Majesty;" in which was _Beaver's_ "_Roman_ Military Punishments," with _twelve plates_ by _Hogarth_. The plate to Chap. XVII. viz. "Pay stopt wholly, or in part, by way of punishment"--"Barley given to offenders instead of wheat, &c." differs in many instances from that sold with the set. At the bottom of the former, in the book, we read, "_W. Hogarth, Invent. sculpt."_ The latter has "_W. Hogarth, invent. & fec._" The former has a range of tents behind the pay-table. These are omitted in the latter; which likewise exhibits an additional soldier attendant on the measuring out of the corn, &c. I do not mean to say that the plate sold with the set is spurious. Had it been a copy, it would naturally have been a servile one. Some reason, now undiscoverable, must have prevailed on our artist to re-engrave it with variations.