Description
The martial achievements of Great Britain. London: James Jenkins, [1815]. 4to (336 x 260mm), hand-coloured engraved armorial dedication leaf, hand-coloured aquatint frontispiece (or "vignette title"), hand-coloured portrait of the Duke of Wellington, and 51 aquatint plates by T. Sutherland after W. Heath, all finely hand-coloured, engraved title (not coloured), without the list of subscribers, brown half morocco gilt
Footnote
Note: An early issue, the plates being fine impressions, watermarked 1812 [Portrait of Wellington 1813], with the vignette title and armorial dedication both coloured, the vignette within the engraved title uncoloured, as is correct. Clean and bright throughout, finely coloured, and with the rare portrait of the Duke of Wellington. Abbey Life 365; Tooley 281.