Nelson by Oman, Carola - 1996

London: Greenhill Books. Very Good/Very Good. 1996. First Thus. Hard Cover. 8vo 1853672351 Dust jacket complete. Original cloth boards with bright gilt titling on spine. Previous owner's colour book plate on ffep. 734pp clean and tight. Carola Oman's classic work sets the standard against which all biographies of Nelson can be judged. The first accounts of the life of Britain's most famous admiral contained many inaccuracies and flaws which were repeated in the works of later writers. Carola Oman, however, `had more and better material than anyone who went before her; and she used it so brilliantly that everyone who came after her was bound to be influenced by her work', as Stephen Howarth writes in his Introduction to this new edition. Carola Oman had access not only to all of the nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century accounts of Nelson's life and battles, but also to primary sources (including Nelson's letters in autograph) which either had never… Read More

Greenhill Books, 1996-03-30. hardcover. Acceptable/Unclipped. 0x0x0. Flat spine. Wear present.Discolouration present.Fold creasing present.Foxing.Scruff marks and small marks present on the front cover and back cover.Scruff mark present at the sides of pages.Small mark present on a few pages. Tearing present.Dent marks present on the front cover and back cover.Stain present at the sides of a few of the pages.

London : Greenhill Books , 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: xxiii, 734 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm. Subjects: Nelson, Horatio Nelson Viscount 1758-1805. Admirals Great Britain ; Biography. Great Britain History, Naval 18th century. Great Britain History, Naval 19th century. Genre: Biography. Language: English.