Nelson
( Horatio NELSON ) OMAN, Carola
THE ORIGINAL EDITION IN DUSTWRAPPER
Published: Hodder & Stoughton, [1947]
Stock code: 51359
Price: £60.00
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, 12 plates, 6 maps and plans in the text and large folding pedigree at end; blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped, lightly browned dustwrapper chipped at edges.
With pictorial personal bookplate on front paste-down, and relevant cutting mounted on front free endpaper. 'Incomparably the fullest modern biographical study of Nelson' (Warner). Still the most comprehensive single-volume biography. THE ORIGINAL EDITION IS UNCOMMON IN THE DUSTWRAPPER. See Albion p.247 (recording only the 1954 edition); NMM II/1 996.