JENKINS (JOHN) The Naval Achievements of Great Britain, from the Year 1793 to 1817, engraved pictorial title, 55 hand-coloured aquatint plates by T. Sutherland, J. Jeakes and Bailey after T. Whitcombe, one uncoloured engraved plate, without the 2 portraits ("complete without them", Tooley) and the list of subscribers, contemporary gilt and blind-stamped maroon morocco, publisher's printed label ('Naval Achievements, Coloured Plates. Thirteen Guineas') inside upper cover, rubbed with some surface abrasions [cf. Abbey, Life 337; Tooley 282], 4to (340 x 262mm.), J. Jenkins, by L. Harrison, [1817] Fußnoten "As a record of naval events spanning a period of over twenty years Jenkins' Naval Achievements has no precedent. At no time prior to 1817 had a publisher attempted such a complete volume of documentary naval prints. It is the quality of the accuracy which makes Jenkins so valuable above all, and it is the pictures rather than the text to which the value can be attributed" (Roger Quarm, National Maritime Museum).
JENKINS (JOHN) The Naval Achievements of Great Britain, from the Year 1793 to 1817, engraved pictorial title, 55 hand-coloured aquatint plates by T. Sutherland, J. Jeakes and Bailey after T. Whitcombe, one uncoloured engraved plate, without the 2 portraits ("complete without them", Tooley) and the list of subscribers, contemporary gilt and blind-stamped maroon morocco, publisher's printed label ('Naval Achievements, Coloured Plates. Thirteen Guineas') inside upper cover, rubbed with some surface abrasions [cf. Abbey, Life 337; Tooley 282], 4to (340 x 262mm.), J. Jenkins, by L. Harrison, [1817] Fußnoten "As a record of naval events spanning a period of over twenty years Jenkins' Naval Achievements has no precedent. At no time prior to 1817 had a publisher attempted such a complete volume of documentary naval prints. It is the quality of the accuracy which makes Jenkins so valuable above all, and it is the pictures rather than the text to which the value can be attributed" (Roger Quarm, National Maritime Museum).
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