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• The Rifle-Musket : A Treatise on the Enfield Pritchett Rifle - Captain Jervis-White Jervis. Chapman and Hall, London, UK, 1854. Reprinted by W.S. Curtis (Publishers) Limited, UK, 1984 & 1993. ISBN 0 948216 11 5
• A Companion to the New Rifle Musket - S. Bertram Browne. Wm. H. Allen & Co, London, 1859.
• Report of the Enfield and Whitworth Committee.War Office. UK, 23 April 1861
• Army Rifles: Report of the Committee on Small Bore Rifles, and the various Systems of Rifling as tried last Year. War Office. UK, 19 March 1863
  
• Papers on Mechanical Subjects, Guns and Steel - Sir Joseph Whitworth. Longmans, London, UK, 1873. Includes information on comparative trials between the Enfield and Whitworth rifles.
• Old English Rifles - A short history c.1800-1886. Includes rifle specifications. The Engineer, 20 August 1886
  
• "Enfield" Volunteer Rifle - De Witt Bailey II. Guns Review, UK. Part One, May 1970. Part Two, June 1970.
• The Indian Enfield - De Witt Bailey II. Guns Review, UK, October 1970
• British Volunteer Rifles 1850-1870 - DeWitt Bailey II. The Gun Digest, 26th Edition 1972
• British Military Longarms 1815-1865 - D.W.Bailey. Arms and Armour Press, UK, 1972. ISBN 85368 075 2
• The Muzzle Loading Enfield Rifle - A.J. Dewis. MLAGB Black Powder Newsletter, October 1976
• The Muzzle Loading Enfield Rifle - A.J. Dewis. Guns Review, UK, February 1979
• Royal Naval Longarms 1700-1870 - D.W. Bailey. Guns Review, UK. May, June, September & October 1980
• Catalogue of the Enfield Pattern Room: British Rifles. HMSO, London, UK, 1981. ISBN 011 771930 7
• The British Soldier's Firearm: From Smoothbore to Smallbore 1859-1864 - C.H. Roads. First published by Herbert Jenkins Ltd., London, 1964. Reprinted by R&R Books, 1994. ISBN 1 884849 13 X
• The Delvigne-Minie System. Target Gun, UK, May 1994
• Robbins & Lawrence - U.S. 19th Century Contractor - J.S. Robinson. Arms & Militaria Collector, No. 7. 1997. Covers the 'Windsor' contract P/53's.
• Enfield Muzzle Loading Rifles - Chris Smith. The 70th London Antique Arms Fair Guide, Spring 2003.

• Select Committee on Small Arms. 1854. Minutes of Evidence Taken before Select Committee appointed to consider the Cheapest , most Expeditios, and most Efficient Mode of Providing Small Arms for Her Majesty's Service. 10 March 1854.
• The Enfield Rifle. Chambers's Journal, 16 April 1859. - A visit to the Ordnance Factory, Enfield. Includes manufacturing processes and observations on the finished rifle and bullet specifications
• The Manufacture of the Enfield Rifle. Illustrated London News, 21 September 1861. Reprinted in the MLAGB Black Powder Newsletter, December 1998
  
• Enfield Combination Tools - D.W. Bailey. Guns Review, UK, January 1971
• The Evolution of Enfield Royal Smallarms Factory and Its Products - Major E.G.B. Reynolds. Guns Review, UK
• Part 1: The age of muzzle-loaders. February 1972
• Part 2: Breech-loaders to automatic arms. March 1972
• Enfield Inspectors' Gauges - Peter Jacques. MLAGB Black Powder Journal, Volume 40, 1993.
• The Royal Small Arms Factory Enfield & Its Workers - David Pam. Enfield Preservation Society, Enfield, UK, 1998. ISBN 0 953227 0 3
• P'53 Enfield Production Markings - Bill Curtis ©2004
• The Birmingham Gun Trade - David Williams. Tempus Publishing Ltd, Stroud, UK, 2004. ISBN 0 7524 3237 0

• Rifle Ammunition - Arthur B. Hawes, Captain (r.h.p.), Bengal Army. W.O. Mitchell, London, 1859. Reprinted by Thomas Publications, Gettysburg, USA, 2004. ISBN 1-57747-100-8
• Small Arms Ammunition in Service (June 1868). MLAGB Black Powder Newsletter, October 1973
• The British Military Top Hat Cap - S. James Gooding. MLAGB Black Powder Journal, Volume 44, 1997
• The Enfield Rifle Musket and its Complex Paper Cartridges - Peter Cruikshank. NMLRA Muzzle Blasts Magazine, October 2002
• Enfield Paper Cartridges - David Minshall ©2004
• Enfield Paper Cartridges - David Minshall. MLAGB Black Powder Newsletter, Autumn 2004
• The Fabrication of Paper Cartridges for the .577" Enfield Rifle - Alan Gosling. MLAGB Black Powder Newsletter, Winter 2004
• Cartridge Testers - W.S.Curtis & D.B.Minshall. MLAGB Black Powder Newsletter, Winter 2004

• The Pattern 1860 Sabre-Bayonet - Guy & Leonard A-R-West. Classic Arms, UK, May 1994

• Mid Nineteenth Century Musketry Manuals, British Official Versions. Classic Arms, UK.
  Part 1, April 1994. Part 2, May 1994.
• The Literature of the Volunteers. Classic Arms
• Part 1 - The Urge To Volunteer 1850 to1859. December 1994
• Part 2 - The Volunteers Take Shape. January/February 1995
• Part 3 - The Volunteers In Being 1859 to 1908. March/April 1995
• Part 4 - The Volunteers In Being 1859 to 1908. July/August 1995

• The Soldier's Manual of Rifle Firing - Captain Thackeray. Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts, London, 1858.
• Three Lectures Upon The Rifle - Colonel E.C. Wilford. John Parker & Son, London, 1859.
• Drill and Rifle Instruction for the Corps of Rifle Volunteers. W.Clowes and Sons, London, UK, 1860. Reprinted by Excalibur Publications, USA, 1995. ISBN 1 880677 09 1
• The Rifle and How To Use It - Captain Hans Busk. 1860. Reprinted by Richmond Publishing Company, USA, 1971
• Handbook for Hythe - Captain Hans Busk. 1860. Reprinted by Richmond Publishing Company, USA, 1971
  
• Instruction of Musketry : Enfield Rifles. Parker-Hale Ltd., Birmingham, UK, 1972. This book is a facsimile of extracts from two standard publications issued to instructors and Volunteers: 'Drill and Rifle Instruction' and ' Regulations for Conducting the Musketry Instruction of the Army.' Both were originally published in 1859.

• The New Enfield P'61 Artillery Carbine Reproduction by Parker-Hale. MLAGB Black Powder Newsletter, December 1972
• Some Trials With The New Enfield Repro. P'61 Artillery Carbine. MLAGB Black Powder Newsletter, March 1973
• The Parker-Hale P'61 Enfield Artillery Carbine. MLAGB Black Powder Newsletter, January 1974
• Euroarms' .577 3-Band Enfield - Geoff Allen. Target Gun, UK, June 1991
• Euroarms/Parker Hale 1853 Enfield Rifle - Derek Landers. Taget Sports, UK, August 2006

• Shooting British Service Rifles - W.D.Bell. The Gun Digest, 20th Edition 1960.
  Covers the P/53, 577 Snider-Enfield and the 577-450 Martini Henry.
• Shooting the Enfield Rifled Musket - R.A. Fletcher. Guns Review, UK, December 1964
• Enfield Optics - Frank Sutton. MLAGB Black Powder Newsletter, March and June 1982
• Accurising the .577 Enfield - Jeff Tanner. MLAGB Black Powder Newsletter, 1993. Reprinted August 2003
• Managing the Enfield - W.S. Curtis ©2001. The rifle, equipment, loading and shooting, sighting, cleaning, bedding. An original article by a former World Record holder. The substance of this article first appeared in Classic Arms magazine (UK) Jan/Feb 1997 and Mar/Apr 1997, and was later printed in the MLAGB Black Powder Newsletter, December 2001.

• Civil War Small Arms. Compilation reprint from various editions of the American Rifleman, 1948-1960. Main interest is the three part article on 'Shooting Confederate Infantry Arms', by Jac Weller.
• Civil War Minie Rifles Prove Quite Accurate - Jac Weller. The American Riflemen, July 1971
• Civil War Firearms - Joe Bilby. Combined Books, USA, 1996. ISBN 0 938289 79 9

• Rifled Infantry Arms : A Brief Description of the Modern System of Small Arms as adopted by The Various European Armies - J. Schön. Dresden 1855. Translated from the German by J. Gorgas, Captian of Ordnance, United States Army. Reprinted Springfield, Mass., USA, 1986
• Reports of Experiments with Small Arms for Military Service - Ordnance Department, US Army. Washington, 1856. Reprinted in limited edition by Dean Thomas, USA.
• Volunteer Long Arms 1859-1908 - Jonathan Lewis. HBSA Report, October 2002

• The Enfield in the Civil War
• The Enfield Rifle Musket : The Southern Contract. Civil War interest
• The Federal Enfield. Civil War interest

The British Militaria foreums at http://p223.ezboard.com/bbritishmilitariaforums has a discussion forum covering 'British Flint and Percussion Arms'.

Abbreviations and References

HBSA - Historical Breechloading Smallarms Association
MLAGB - Muzzle Loaders' Association of Great Britain