JENKINS, JAMES. FL.1825.


The Martial Achievements of Great Britain and Her Allies; From 1799 to 1815. London: Printed for Js. Jenkins by L. Harrison & J.C. Leigh, [c.1825]. Folio, (358 x 282 mm) engraved title, hand-colored engraved dedication and 52 hand-colored aquatint engravings including frontispiece after William Heath. Contemporary half crimson straight-grain morocco over marbled boards, spine titled and decorated in gilt, original publisher's price label pasted to front pastedown. Uncut with wide margins, a few plates with faint stains, short expert repairs in margin of one plate, plates with bright color and generally clean; spine darkened and with some wear, boards rubbed, bookplate removed from front pastedown. Provenance: Historian George Macaulay Trevelyan 1876-1962 (gift inscription on title page: "George Macaulay Trevelyan from his father, Feb. 16, 1884"). FIRST EDITION, LATER ISSUE, but without the portrait issued with later bound sets. Some of the text sheets watermarked "1812," some of the plates watermarked 1824 or 1825. A wonderful assortment of plates mainly focusing on the Napoleonic wars culminating in the Battle of Waterloo. Abbey Life 365. Howes M326. Sabin 44853.