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The Martial Achievements Of Great Britain And Her Allies; From 1799 To 1815.

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Title:
The Martial Achievements Of Great Britain And Her Allies; From 1799 To 1815.

Date of publication:

  • c.1835
  • Binding:

  • later half morocco
  • Author:

  • James Jenkins
  • James Jenkins: The Martial Achievements Of Great Britain And Her Allies; From 1799 To 1815. London, printed for James Jenkins [...] by L. Harrison & J.C. Leigh […], [c.1835]

    Condition & Materials  Read more

    Folio (37 x 29.5 cm). Hand-coloured engraved frontispiece, engraved title, engraved dedication to the Duke of Wellington and 51 hand-coloured aquatint plates, occasional minor marginal spotting but generally a clean example; text leaves on Whatman paper, watermarked 1812 as usual, with plates watermarked 1825 and 1834; later nineteenth-century red half morocco by Bumpus, rebacked, preserving original spine.

    Armorial bookplate of Sir David Salomons of Broomhills, now the Salomons Museum (either the first Baronet, a key campaigner for Jewish emancipation and the first Jewish MP to speak in Parliament, or his nephew the second Baronet, a scientist and engineer).

    References 

    Abbey, Life, 365 (early issue, in parts). Read less