Lot 286
Auction: Day One: 09 July 2008 | From 12:00
£540
Description
Clarke, James Stanier & McArthur, John
The life of Admiral Lord Nelson, K.B. from his lordship’s manuscripts. London: by T. Bensley for T. Caddel & W. Davies, 1809. First edition, 2 volumes, large 4to., with an engraved frontispiece to volume 1 and 16 other engraved plates, 4 vignettes, with a double page pedigree of the Nelson family, facsims. in the text, contemporary diced Russia, gilt borders of Greek key pattern and palmettes, repeated in smaller tools to form an inner panel, a.e.g., rebacked, edges rubbed, some very slight internal spotting. [2].