Nelson : Life and Letters of a Hero. [Midshipman Nelson; Merest Boy of a Captain; Caribbean; Quest for Glory; Victory in the Mediterranean; Honour & Disrepute; Defiance & Domesticity; Trafalgar; Chronology; Naval Terms; In the Footsteps of Nelson]

Morriss, Roger. [National Maritime Museum (Great Britain); Elizabeth Drury, Katie Bent, Philippa Lewis, Roger Bristow, Bill Mason, Kevin Williams; artwork, Lemuel Abbott, Giacomo Guardi, J P Knight, P.-J. de Loutherbourg, Thomas Rowlandson, J. Fairburn, F G Fuger, J C Stadler, William Beechey, M E Cotman, Thomas Bardwell, Dominic Serres, Samuel Buck, Nathaniel Buck, Edward Orme, Gi lbert Stuart, Richard Westall, John Francis Rigaud, John Augustus Atkinson, Benjamin West, John Downman, Daniel Orme, Nicholas Pocock, Hugh Douglas Hamilton, Samuel Shelley, David Allan, James Gillray, George Romney, Vigee Lebrun, John Thomas Serres , Leonardo Guzzardi, Johann Heinrich Schmidt, Isaac Cruikshank, Richard Cosway, Thomas Baxter]

ISBN 10: 1855852748 / ISBN 13: 9781855852747

Published by London : Collins & Brown ; North Pomfret, Vt. : Distributed by Trafalgar Square, 1996., 1996

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[1st edition, 1st printing] 160 pp. ; illustrations (some in color), maps ; 20 x 26 cm. ; ISBN: 1855852748; 9781855852747 ; LC: DA87.1.N4; Dewey: 359.03092; 923.5 ; OCLC: 36292054 ; black cloth with gold lettering and color illustrated dustjacket ; artwork featured, by Lemuel Abbott, Giacomo Guardi, J P Knight, P.-J. de Loutherbourg, Thomas Rowlandson, J. Fairburn, F G Fuger, J C Stadler, William Beechey, M E Cotman, Thomas Bardwell, Dominic Serres, Samuel Buck, Nathaniel Buck, Edward Orme, Gi lbert Stuart, Richard Westall, John Francis Rigaud, John Augustus Atkinson, Benjamin West, John Downman, Daniel Orme, Nicholas Pocock, Hugh Douglas Hamilton, Samuel Shelley, David Allan, James Gillray, George Romney, Vigee Lebrun, John Thomas Serres , Leonardo Guzzardi, Johann Heinrich Schmidt, Isaac Cruikshank, Richard Cosway, and Thomas Baxter ; VG/VG.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Nelson : Life and Letters of a Hero. [Midshipman Nelson; Merest Boy of a Captain; Caribbean; Quest for Glory; Victory in the Mediterranean; Honour & Disrepute; Defiance & Domesticity; Trafalgar; Chronology; Naval Terms; In the Footsteps of Nelson]
• Publisher: London : Collins & Brown ; North Pomfret, Vt. : Distributed by Trafalgar Square, 1996.
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1855852748
• ISBN 13: 9781855852747
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Book Type: Book
• Seller catalogs:
  • Catalog 65 - History

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Synopsis

The book is illustrated throughout with contemporary paintings and engravings, commemorative and presentation items and manuscripts; there are features on such topics as medicine at sea and mutiny in the navy.