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[JENKINS, James]. –– HEATH, William, illustrator. Martial Achievements of Great Britain and Her Allies; from 1799 to 1815. London: printed for Js. Jenkins by L. Harrison & J. C. Leigh, [c. 1825]. Folio (358 x 282 mm). Engraved title, hand–colored engraved dedication, and 52 hand–colored aquatint engravings including frontispiece after William Heath (. Contemporary half crimson straight–grain morocco over marbled boards, titling in compartments framed in gilt scrollwork, original publisher’s price ticket affixed to front pastedown, uncut with wide margins (spine a trifle bit darkened with rubbing along joints and ends, boards rubbed). Provenance: Historian George Macaulay Trevelyan 1876–1962 (gift inscription on title); Vincent Lloyd Russell (modern bookplate). FIRST EDITION, LATER ISSUE, but without the portrait issued with later bound sets, mixed with text sheets watermarked “1812” and plates watermarked “1824” or “1825”. A handsome assortment of plates chiefly focusing on the Napoleonic Wars culminating in the Battle of Waterloo. Abbey, Life 365; Howes M326; Sabin 44853; Tooley 281.