Folio (26 x 18 1/8 inches). Original light grey paper upper wrapper mounted on thin card as a title page with the title (as above) printed in letterpress. 18 (of 24) hand-coloured lithographed plates, each mounted on a card in imitation of a watercolour (as issued) with manuscript captions in ink in a single hand on the mount below each image. Unbound as issued in original dark green half morocco, upper cover with blocked design in gilt of four soldiers, a flag, various trophies of war and the word Sebastopol, cloth ties. An exceptionally rare work: no copies, complete or otherwise, are listed as having sold at auction in the past thirty years. We have only ever seen one other copy of this work, which is now in the Bobins collection. These excellent plates are unsigned, but some are drawn up from sketches made on the spot, while others were worked up from photographs - an important early example of this technique. Coloured plates in order: 1. Patient of the Redan - Midnight. 2. Arrival of French Troops at Balaklava. 3. Balaklava. 4. Repulsion of the French from the Little Redan. 5. Troops in review in the rear of 21 Gun Battery. 6. Sebastopol from the Plateau. 7. The Hurricane. 8. Sebastopol from the Sea. 9. Removing the wounded from the Great Redan. 10. Rocks near Balaklava. 11. The Aquaduct. 12. The Malakhoff. 13. Mektir Bridge after the Battle of The Tchernaya. 14. Entrance to Balaklava. 15. Rifle Party Skirmishing (?) 16. Valley of Inkermann. 17. Major General Sir Arthur Torrens at Inkermann. 18. Sebastopol from the rear of the Great Redan.