Southey's 'Nelson'. Bibliography of the 1813-1857 English Editions of Robert Southey's Life of Nelson. By Michael Nash.

Published By Marine & Cannon Books Hoylake & Tattenhall at the Nilcoptra Press. 2019. First Published in 2015 in 'Between Wind & Water', a Limited Edition of 12 Copies only.

This Revised Extract from the above work is the first thus 2019. Southey's 'Nelson' is limited to one Hundred copies. Colour and Black and White Photographs, illustrations, frontispiece, 189 Pages. Very good softback, minor shelf-wear, no inscriptions.

'Southey's 'Nelson' follows the fortunes of the Poet Laureate's Life of Nelson from 1813 to 1857 during which twenty-four books are examined in detail. Along the way we discover, for example, that some of these publications are not editions at all, but disguised remainders. We learn of the agreement reached between John Murray and Thomas Tegg and how that agreement was breached. We discover the tenuous relationships that existed between John Murray and his printers; how the latter were forever treading on eggshells in order to maintain their business ties with the most successful London bookseller of the early nineteenth century.'

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