1899 The Life of Nelson The Embodiment of the Sea Power of Great Britain

Description

Early Edition, Leather Binding, Pleasing Copy

The second edition, revised.

With a frontispiece, ten plates, and twenty one maps and plans, three of which are folding. Lacking plate entitled 'Horatia, at 22 Years of Age'

In handsome full calf. Prize binding from H. M. S. Conway School Ship with crest to front board and bookplate to front paste down.

The work portrays Admiral Horatio Nelson as a heroic British naval commander whose leadership, strategic brilliance, and valor secured key victories, notably Trafalgar, shaping naval warfare and ensuring British maritime dominance during the Napoleonic Wars.