PRIZE BINDING gilt blue calf with spine on 5 bands and gilt decorated compartments with red gilt title label, gilt dentelles and blind-tooled reverses. Front board with Durham House Folkestone shield and motto in gilt, All Edges Marbled to match marbled endpapers. Frontis +[xvi]pp prelims +400pp. One page with tiny marginal nick and a few of the index pages with marginal creasing. A clean tight copy with many extra illustrations and plates (over 60) added to this edition. *Southey's life of Nelson is still a useful biography of this important period of naval history.