SOUTHEY Robert — The Life of Nelson. [First Edition, Second Issue.] SOUTHEY'S SECOND ISSUE IN PUBLISHER'S BINDING

John Murray, 1813. 2 vols., 8vo., First Edition, Second Issue, with engraved portrait frontispiece (first volume) and facsimile as frontispiece (second volume), frontispieces mildly damp-marked, neat contemporary signature on titles, second volume pp.163-207 damp-marked at upper edge (pp.175-189 markedly affected); publisher's binding of green diced cloth, backstrips with dark red leather labels framed, lettered and ruled in gilt (one label chafed at edges), gilt edges, primrose endpapers, boards mildly damp-marked (rather more on second volume) but not extending to contents, else a bright, crisp, clean copy in publisher's original binding. With publisher's advertisements (3pp.; 6pp. respectively) at end. Bookplate removed from front paste-downs. Second issue, with Vol. II, p.258 correctly paginated. VERY SCARCE. Cowie 139; Nash 1; NMM II, p.927.