J. Jenkins, publisher | The Naval Achievements of Great Britain. London, [1817], nineteenth-century red half morocco

James Jenkins, publisher

The Naval Achievements of Great Britain. London: J. Jenkins, [1817]

4to (365 x 295mm.), 55 hand-coloured aquatint plates (including View of Gibraltar bound in as frontispiece), one plain plate, nineteenth-century red half morocco over marbled boards, leaves uncut, brown endpapers, bookseller's ticket of Kerr & Richardson, Glasgow to rear pastedown, browning at extremities, extremities slightly rubbed

In the words of Roger Quarm of the National Maritime Museum: "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."

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