Clarke & M’Arthur’s Life & Services of Horatio Viscount Nelson

Clarke, Rev. James Stanier & M’Arthur, John: The Life & Services of Horatio Viscount Nelson [...] from His Lordship's Manuscripts. London: Fisher, Son & Co, [1839-40] 

An account of Nelson with stacks of plates and portraits, bringing the scenes and faces of his career to life

Condition & Materials 

3 vols, 8vo. pp. [ii], 256 [ii] + frontispiece portrait of Nelson, additional engraved title-page with vignette of Nelson's birthplace and 11 further plates; pp. 500 + frontispiece portrait of the dedicatee, Sir Thomas-Masterman Hardy, additional engraved title-page with vignette of Nelson's monument at St Paul's and 11 further plates, plus folding plan of harbour and fortifications of Boulogne; pp. 394 + frontispiece portraits of Lord Collingwood and George III, additional engraved title-page with vignette of Greenwich Hospital, and 9 further plates.

Portrait of Earl St Vincent supplied in volume 2, but not duplicated in volume 3 where it is also called for. Some spotting at intervals throughout. Tan quarter calf over marbled boards, rubbed to extremities, inner hinge to volume 3 split.