Price: £1,000
Subject: History
Published Date: 1806
Stock Number: 65342
(Nelson.) COLLINGWOOD (Adam)
Anecdotes of the Lord Viscount Nelson.
With Copious Accounts of the Three Great Victories of the British Naval Hero off the Nile, Copenhagen and Trafalgar... To which is added, the Ceremonial of his Funeral, the Services, Anthems, and other Solemn Rites. Also, Select Poetry, to commemorate the greatest Naval Victories that ever adorned the Pages of History, and to add one small Tribute to the Name of Immortal Nelson.
Description: FIRST (SOLE) EDITION, engraved title with portrait vignette, engraved frontispiece of funeral carriage, 3 wood-engraved plates (the coffin emblems, a plan of the coffin's placement at the Greenwich platform and an interior plan of St Paul's), one illustration, initial and final leaves slightly spotted, pp. [iv], iv, 148, 8vo in sixes, half black roan, marbled boards, spine ruled and lettered in gilt, corners knocked, edges rubbed, boards faintly discoloured at roan edges, goodPublication Details: Printed by W. Stratford... for J. Stratford, 1806
Notes: Following Nelson's death at Trafalgar, a number of tributes were hurried into print, including this work, by the otherwise unknown Adam Collingwood, a name presumably supplied by the publisher, with an eye to Nelson's renowned friend and comrade, Admiral Cuthbert Collingwood. Authors of the 'select poetry' include Weeden Butler and Henry James Pye, the poet laureate.
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