This unique book records the comprehensive new warrant for military uniforms introduced by George III in 1768. The fabric buttonhole swatches represent the various ‘facings’ (originally the lining of the coat revealed by turned-back lapel, skirt tails and cuffs) and ‘lacings’ (the military braid used to reinforce the edges of buttonholes, lapels and cuffs) for 70 infantry regiments. The 18th-century 'facings' and 'lacings' are bound with typescript tables recording the facings of infantry regiments in 1768, and the changes in facings between 1751 and 1908. These tables were compiled by Charles ffoulkes. Later he was the first curator of the Imperial War Museum, but at the time of compiling the tables in 1911 he was studying arms and armour at St John's College, Oxford. His research into the 1768 collection of swatches was presumably carried out at the behest of the Hon. John Fortescue, then Royal Librarian. It is likely that up to that point the facing patterns had been kept in a bundle rather than in a bound volume.