The Life of Admiral Viscount Exmouth

London: Smith, Elder and Co, 1835. Hardcover. Very Good +. xvi, 448 p.: frontispiece and 5 additional leaves of plates (including 1 folded map); 23 cm. Contemporary full polished calf; six spine compartments between raised bands. Black leather label in second spine compartment with gilt-tooled title: Life of Ld. Exmouth. Gilt-tooled decoration in remaining compartments and on raised bands. Double gilt-ruled borders on both boards; gilt-tooled decoration on board edges and turn-ins. All page edges marbled; marbled endpapers. Brown ribbon bookmark (separated from binding). The frontispiece portrait of Admiral Viscount Exmouth was engraved by W. Finden from a painting by W. Owen. The life of Admiral Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth (1757-1833), a British naval officer who fought during the American Revolution (when he was taken prisoner at Saratoga), the French Revolutionary wars, and the Napoleonic wars. He is familiar to fans of C. S. Forester's Captain Horation Hornblower series. In Very Good+ Condition: edges lightly rubbed; loss of less than 1 cm. of leather at head of spine; foxing on plates and minimally on facing pages of text; otherwise clean and tight. A very attractive copy of this military biography.