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JENKINS, James.
The Naval Achievements of Great Britain.
From the Year 1793 to 1817.
First Edition, First Issue, with uncoloured title-page vignette and plates watermarked no later than 1816. This magnificent publication, illustrating the high-water mark of Britain's maritime hegemony, was disappointingly slow to sell on its first issue in 1817 and is more usually met with in later issues, with plates variously watermarked as late as 1840. Later issues have the title vignette coloured.
Folio (321 × 262 mm). Recently rebound in green half morocco by J. May of London, spine richly gilt, side-panels decorated in blind, marbled endpapers, old marbled edges. In green leather-entry slipcase. With 55 hand-coloured aquatints of naval battles and ships on Whatman paper, 1 uncoloured plate, plan of the Bombardment of Algiers and plan of the Battle of Trafalgar, uncoloured title vignette. A little closely trimmed at head, occasionally just touching platemarks, still an excellent copy, with good original colour.
