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The Life of Nelson
by SOUTHEY, Robert
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- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
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London, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
London: Bickers and Son, 1877. Hardcover. Very good. xiv, [2], 351 p. 22 cm. 12 b&w plates. Full blue leather with gilt trim, raised bands on spine, burgundy spine label. Marbled endpapers and text block edges. Binding signed by Bickers & Son, London. Corners bumped. Bookplate for C. C. Savage. A front endpaper torn out, stain on p. 17, small tear in top of fold-out map of the Battle of the Nile.
Southey is rememberd today as a romantic poet, but he also wrote prose works such as this life of Nelson. Far from being objective, Southey describes his subject as the ideal national hero. In fact, Nelson is Patriotism personified as a man, and the illustrations by Richard Westall add to the romance of the portrayal. Note bookplate of Claude Campbell Savage of London, Ontario, an associate of the London firm Ivey, Elliott and Gillanders who became Crown Attorney for Middlesex County in 1943.
Southey is rememberd today as a romantic poet, but he also wrote prose works such as this life of Nelson. Far from being objective, Southey describes his subject as the ideal national hero. In fact, Nelson is Patriotism personified as a man, and the illustrations by Richard Westall add to the romance of the portrayal. Note bookplate of Claude Campbell Savage of London, Ontario, an associate of the London firm Ivey, Elliott and Gillanders who became Crown Attorney for Middlesex County in 1943.
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- Bookseller
- Attic Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 140108
- Title
- The Life of Nelson
- Author
- SOUTHEY, Robert
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Bickers and Son
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1877
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Military, Horation Nelson, Biography, Woodburytype, C. C. Savage, Bickers & Son, Battle of Trafalgar, Napoleonic Wars, British Navy
- Bookseller catalogs
- Britain;
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- Bookplate
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- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Raised Band(s)
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
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