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Wellington\'s Victories, Jenkins\' Martial Achievements, Subscription Copy:
$4091.46

The Martial Achievements of Great Britain and Her Allies from 1799 to 1815,by James Jenkins, London, 1815.Folio. (binding 35 x 29 cms, Text / Plates 34 x 27 cms) Engraved title withun-coloured vignette, hand-coloured aquatint frontispiece additional title,hand coloured engraved coat of arms of the Duke of Wellington, hand colouredengraved portrait of the Duke of Wellington, List of Subscribers, Introduction,Table of Contents and 51 hand coloured plates of battles by Thomas Sutherlandafter William Heath. Many of the original tissue guards are still in place.. Platefor The Death of Sir John Moore and numerous text pages are watermarked J WHATMAN1812. Contemporary mahogany coloured calf, covers elaborately tooled andpanelled in gilt and blind, spine with wide semi-raised bands in sixcompartments, lettered in the second compartment, the others with a repeatdecoration in gilt, (spine is expertly re-backed), with brown marble endpapers.

A fine copy of this beautifully-illustrated record ofthe battles and campaigns during the war against Napoleon\'s France:\"A brilliant and worthy record of a brilliant period in England\'shistory\" (Hardie). First published in 1814-1815, Jenkins\' MartialAchievements enjoyed enduring popularity, with the result that it wasre-issued several times. The present issue is the scarce first issue, withpre-publication watermarks to both text and plates, the rare portrait of Wellingtonand the subscriber\'s list. Whilst this work does include nine scenes fromlocations as diverse as India, Israel, Egypt, Italy, South America and Russia,it is essentially a record of the Peninsular War from August 1808 whenLieutenant-General Sir Arthur Wellesley (the future Duke of Wellington), landedin Portugal, through until the ultimate defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo in June1815. Each plate captures a pivotal moment during an important battle: the textdescribes the scene pictured and then, using excerpts from contemporarybulletins, dispatches, letters, and speeches gives an account of the action asa whole, often ending on a fascinating, but more sombre note by recording thenames and regiments of the senior officers killed.

With the brilliant strategist Wellingtonat their head, the British and their Portuguese and Spanish allies fought to ejectNapoleon and the French firstly from Portugal,and then Spain.In a seven year period, during which over a million people lost their lives,the French (with the most experienced and successful army in Europe) went frombeing the masters of a demoralized and all-but-defeated Spain to being ejectedforever from the Iberian Peninsular, having been repulsed during a long seriesof engagements against Spanish irregulars supporting Wellington\'s AngloPortuguese Army. Many of these engagements are pictured and described here in awork that Prideaux notes is \"worthy of its theme, one [could not] desire afiner record of heroic deeds\". Scenes include The Battles of Roleia; Vimiera;Corunna; Grigo; Talavera; Busaco; Barrosa; Pombal;Fuentes d’Onoro, Albuera, Siegeof Badajos, Siege of Ciudad Roderigo, Salamanca; Seville;Vittoria; The Storming of St. Sebastian; The Pyrennees, Orthes,Toulouse, The Entrance of the Allies into Paris; and The Battle of Quatre Brasand two plates of the Battle of Waterloo.

The plates are all the work of aquatint engraverThomas Sutherland, who specialized in hunting, coaching, military, and navalsubjects: his earliest dated work is from 1804, and shortly thereafter wasemployed by London publisherRudolph Ackermann. Here, Sutherland works from originals by William Heath whois now best known for his caricatures, political cartoons, and images whichoffered a visual commentary on contemporary life. Reference: Tooley EnglishBooks with Coloured Plates, 1790-1860, Item 281 for Jenkins’ MartialAchievements.

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