A Portrait of Lord Nelson
( Horatio NELSON ) WARNER, Oliver
NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Published: Chatto & Windus, 1958
Stock code: 51392
Price: £35.00
8vo., First Edition, with portrair frontispiece, plates, facsimiles, plans, large folding plan and endpaper maps; blue cloth, gilt back, backstrip faintly spotted else a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
Dustwrapper artwork by Clarke Hutton. 'The author, using material not used by earlier biographers, gives accounts of Nelson's notes on the Baltic Campaign; Nelson's first visit to Naples in 1793; and a previously unknown affair with a lady at Leghorn. An appendix gives the first detailed list of Nelson's portaits from life.' (NMM). SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Cowie 184; NMM II/1: 1003.