viii, 100 pp. With 14 copper-engraved plates including the frontispiece, 2 of them double-page, most engraved by W.H. Worthington after W. Bromley; inserted facsimile letter. 12¾x10¼, later half calf & cloth, spine tooled in gilt, raised bands, morocco label. First Edition, large paper copy.

Handsomely produced biography of the great British admiral Horatio Nelson, who fell at the triumphant battle of Trafalgar. The frontispiece portrait in these has been trimmed down and mounted on a leaf when the book was rebound.