NELSON, Horatio - SOUTHEY, Robert.

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The Life of Nelson. First edition, second issue with page 258 of volume II correctly paginated. "Southey constructed an early-nineteenth century hero as a model for the young - in his words, a 'patriotic manual'. He told a friend that he would write 'such a life of Nelson as shall be put into the hands of every youth destined for the Navy'" (Knight, p. 542), as it most assuredly was, coming to dominate the Nelson biography market, and remaining perpetually in print.

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