A PORTRAIT OF LORD NELSON.
Pp. xii+372, frontispiece portrait plus 11 plates, title page decoration, 4 facsimiles, endpaper maps, folding battle plan at end, appendix, index; demy 8vo; navy boards, spine lettered in gilt; dust wrapper, the front flap slightly creased; Chatto & Windus, London, 1971. Second impression. *First published in 1958, to coincide with the bi-centenary of Nelson's birth, this biography incorporates new material describing Nelson's first visit to Naples in 1793, and his own notes on the Baltic campaign of 1801, plus references to an affair with a Leghorn lady, unknown to earlier biographers, and an appendix containing the first detailed list of Nelson portraits from life. Item #184068
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