1806 Memoirs Of The Professional Life Of The Late Most Noble Lord Horatio Nelson Viscount and Baron Nelson of the Nile Comprehending Authentic and Circumstantial Details of His Glorious Achievements Under The British Flag. To which is added by way of Supplement A Correct Narrative of the Ceremonies Attending his Funeral.

Description

Early Edition, Folding Plates, Illustrated, Leather Binding, Pleasing Copy, Scarce

The third edition, considerably enlarged. Very scarce in any edition, with no copies of the first edition held institutionally. 

Two volumes bound in one, bound with the supplement volume. 

Rebound in modern half calf. Endpapers renewed and blanks discarded. 

A wide margined copy. 

With an extra engraved title page, frontispiece and four folding plates to volume one and a frontispiece and two folding plates to the supplementary volume. A page of advertisements to the rear of both volumes and half title to supplementary volume. No collation available, but conforms to other held copies. 

An informative and much enlarged work containing the memoirs of Horatio Nelson, working chronologically through Nelson's professional career. An early Nelson biography, first published shortly before Nelson's funeral on the 9th January 1806. This third and finest edition appeared shortly after and contains an excellent contemporary account of the ceremony.