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The Naval Achievements of Great Britain from the Year 1793 to 1817. London: L. Harrison for J. Jenkins, [1816-1817, plates watermarked 1855].
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JENKINS, James (publisher) [ and WHITCOMBE, Thomas (1760-1824), artist]
The Naval Achievements of Great Britain from the Year 1793 to 1817. London: L. Harrison for J. Jenkins, [1816-1817, plates watermarked 1855].
Fine copy of this increasingly rare documentary record of naval engagements. The title vignette is coloured, as issued in later editions. This was the companion piece to Martial Achievements (lot 108) by the same publisher. Tooley notes that the two portraits were additional plates and 'the work is complete without them.' Abbey Life 337; Bobins II, 360; Tooley 282.
Large quarto (359 x 280mm). Engraved title with hand-coloured vignette by W. Bartlett, 55 aquatint plates by S. Rawle, Sutherland and others after T. Whitcombe, coloured by a contemporary hand, one plain etched plate of the plan of the Bombardment of Algiers (without the two additional portraits of Nelson and St. Vincent and leaf with list of subscribers, scattered spotting and offsetting onto letterpress leaves, plate 18 heavily trimmed). Contemporary red half morocco gilt, marbled boards, spine lettered and decorated in gilt (extremities rubbed); housed in dark blue clamshell box. Provenance: Publisher’s printed yellow label 'Naval Achievements. Coloured plates, Thirteen Guineas' (upper corner of inside cover) — with William Rider (Sale, London, September 1885, lot 34; catalogue clipping paste to inside cover) —Arthur Potts (bookplate).
The Naval Achievements of Great Britain from the Year 1793 to 1817. London: L. Harrison for J. Jenkins, [1816-1817, plates watermarked 1855].
Fine copy of this increasingly rare documentary record of naval engagements. The title vignette is coloured, as issued in later editions. This was the companion piece to Martial Achievements (lot 108) by the same publisher. Tooley notes that the two portraits were additional plates and 'the work is complete without them.' Abbey Life 337; Bobins II, 360; Tooley 282.
Large quarto (359 x 280mm). Engraved title with hand-coloured vignette by W. Bartlett, 55 aquatint plates by S. Rawle, Sutherland and others after T. Whitcombe, coloured by a contemporary hand, one plain etched plate of the plan of the Bombardment of Algiers (without the two additional portraits of Nelson and St. Vincent and leaf with list of subscribers, scattered spotting and offsetting onto letterpress leaves, plate 18 heavily trimmed). Contemporary red half morocco gilt, marbled boards, spine lettered and decorated in gilt (extremities rubbed); housed in dark blue clamshell box. Provenance: Publisher’s printed yellow label 'Naval Achievements. Coloured plates, Thirteen Guineas' (upper corner of inside cover) — with William Rider (Sale, London, September 1885, lot 34; catalogue clipping paste to inside cover) —Arthur Potts (bookplate).
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