The Snider-Enfield Resource List

• Army (Breech Loaders). "Copy of Report on the Committee upon Breech Loaders for the Army." War Office, 28 July 1864
• Military Breech-Loading Small Arms - Capt. V.D. Majenie R.A. Reprinted from the Journal of the Royal United Servcie Institution, 1867, by Arms and Armour Press (1966)
• The Snider Breech-Loader Rifle. The Engineer, 6 November 1866. Details of the rifle and cartridge with, reportedly, the earliest published detailed illustrations.
• Military Breech-Loading Rifles with detailed notes on the Snider and Martiny-Henry Rifles and Boxer Ammunition - Capt. V.D. Majendie and Capt. C.O. Browne. Royal Artillery Institution, 1870. Reprint by Arms and Armour press, 1973. SBN 85368 309 3
• The Three Rifles - Maj. Stamford Sheridan Young. Originally published 1877 (2nd Edition, 1878). Reprinted by W.S.Cutis (Publishers) Ltd., 1997. ISBN 0 948216 15 8. Covers The Snider, The Military Smallbore and The Match Rifle.
• Old English Rifles - A short history c.1800-1886. Includes rifle specifications. The Engineer, 20 August 1886
• The Snider Rifle - P.M. Adamson. Guns Review, UK, November 1963.
• The Snider-Enfield - Charles J. Purdon. Historical Arms Series No.2, Museum Restoration Series, 1963.
• A Debut of Death - Snider-Enfield rifes go inot service in Abyssinia - Major F.Myatt. Guns Review, UK, December 1966
• Trial and Error - P. Labbett. Guns Review, November 1970. Brief review of the breech loading arms trials leading to the adoption of the Snider, and later the Martini-Henry. Illustrates rifles by: Soper, Henry, Leetches, Albini-Braendlin, Reilly-Comblain
• A Snider Armourers Kit. HBSA Journal, October 1973. Reprint of original illustration of an Armourer-Sergeants' Field Tool Chest.
• Snider Pressure Gun (illustrated). HBSA Journal, 1974
• .577 Snider-Enfield Rifles & Carbines - Ian Skennerton. Originally published in 1977. Revised edition published by Ian Skennerton, 2003. ISBN 0 949749 47 8. British Service Longarms, 1866-c.1880. The definitive study of Britain's first breech-loading rifle, at first converted from Enfield muskets, then newly made with Mk III breech. The trials, development, rifle and carbine models are detailed; new information along with descriptions of the cartridges.
• Catalogue of the Enfield Pattern Room: British Rifles. HMSO, London, UK, 1981. ISBN 011 771930 7
• The Patents of Jacob Snider Junior - A.J. Dewis. HBSA Journal, October 1982
• The Snider-Enfield Rifle - Charles J. Purdon. Historical Arms Series No.24, Museum Restoration Series, 1990.
• The Snider-Enfield. Target Gun, UK, June 1994
• .577 Snider-Enfield Rifles & Carbines - Ian Skennerton. Arms & Militaria Collector, No. 7. 1997
• Cartridge Carbines of the British Army - Alan M. Petrillo. Excalibur Publications, 1998. ISBN 1 88067713 X
• Sniders and Magdala - Fred Wilkinson. HBSA Report, October 2001. Lecture notes. Development of the Snider, and the Abyssinian campaign.
• Jacob Snider's Patents. HBSA Report, October 2001
• 1871 Franco-Prussian War Snider Rifles - British Made - Graham Priest. Classic Arms, UK. Part 1 - September/October 2002, Part 2 November-December 2002.

• 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
• The Royal Small Arms Factory Enfield & Its Workers - David Pam. Enfield Preservation Society, Enfield, UK, 1998. ISBN 0 953227 0 3
• The Birmingham Gun Trade - David Williams. Tempus Publishing Ltd, Stroud, UK, 2004. ISBN 0 7524 3237 0

• Treatise on Ammunition 1877 Reprint of 1878 Original Edition (by Naval & Military Press, 2003). ISBN 1843425327. Official ammunition handbook 1877, including smooth bore and rifled gun projectiles, small arms ammunition and rockets. Details of all artillery ammunition of the period.
• The .577 Snider Cartridge - J.E. Allen. Guns Review, UK, May/June 1961.
• Military Cartridge History, Part 2 - Geoffrey Boothroyd. Guns Review, UK, April 1963.
• Small Arms Ammunition in Service (June 1868). MLAGB Black Powder Newsletter, October 1973
• A Review of British Military Smallarms Ammunition - Capt. J.P. Munnery. HBSA Journal, December 1975
• Boxer Cartridge In The British Service - B.A. Temple. Published by Ian Skennerton, 1977. ISBN 0 9596677 0 9. A study of Daw’s and Boxer’s cartridges and their adoption by the War Office to proceed through Snider, Martini-Henry rifle & carbine loads and the shot & blank variants. Also revolver cartridges for Adams, R.I.C., Very and 1-in. signal pistols, then .65 Gatling and .303 blank ammunition rounds out this comprehensive study.
• The British Boxer Primer. HBSA Journal, October 1985
• Military Black Powder Rifle Calibre Ammunition, Part IX, Great Britain - P.Labbett. Guns Review, May 1992
• Military Blackpowder Rifle Ammunition in the 19th Century - Pater Labbett. Classic Arms, UK.
• Part 1 - Germany, France, Austria-Hungary, Italy, The Papal State (Vatican), Great Britain. January/February 1997
• Part 2 - Switzerland, Belgium, The Netherlands, Spain, Portugal. March/April 1997
• Part 3 - Russia, Japan, Turkey, Bulgaria, Serbia, Romania. July/August 1997
• Part 4 - USA. March/April 1998
• Part 5 - Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Greece, The Vatican, Egypt, Ethiopia, Afghanistan, Latin America. May/June 1998
• B.L. Small-Arm Ammunition. HBSA Report, July 2002. Reprint from "Treatise on Ammunition 1877"

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

• The Martini-Henry v. Snider - Francis J. Lock. M.A.Roberts, London, 1879 (1st Edition)
• A Guide to the Queen's Sixty or, Martini-Henry and Snider Rifles and How to Use Them - Herbert Percy Miller. T.G.Johnson, London, 1884 (9th Edition)
• 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.
• Exterior Ballistics of the Snider Enfield - A.J. Dewis. HBSA Journal, November 1977
• Shooting With the Snider-Enfield - Geoff Allen. Target Gun, UK, August 1991
• The .577" Snider Enfield MK III Short Rifle - Guy & Leonard A.R.West. Classic Arms, UK.
• History. January 1994
• Reloading. February, March and April 1994
• Handloading the .577 Cartridge - Guy and Leonard A-R-West. Classic Arms, UK, September/October 2000
• Britain's Big .577 Snider - Holt Bodinson. Guns Magazine, USA, March 2006.

• Volunteer Long Arms 1859-1908 - Jonathan Lewis. HBSA Report, October 2002

• Loading and Firing the British Snider Enfield, 1867 - Robert Henderson (Ed). Platoon exercise for the Snider Enfield taken from "Extracts from Field Exercise and Evolutions of Infantry, as Revised by Her Majesty's Command." (Pall Mall, 1867).
  
• Military Rifles in the Age of Transition - Black Powder, Metallic Cartridge, Military Rifles from about 1865 to about 1888
• Snider Rifle Drill - Boy's Manual of Seamanship and Gunnery, Musketry Instruction
  

British Militaria Forums includes a forum dedictaed to the Snider-Enfield, and has a most useful list of "Martini/Snider Internet Resource Sites" within the Archives section.

Abbreviations and References

HBSA - Historical Breechloading Smallarms Association