No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, very slight foxing to end papers and page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked with some foxing, two cm tear to lower front corner and minor creasing. 256pp.

Biography of the naval officer who served with Nelson in the Mediterranean and whom Nelson had thought of as his professional heir. Illustrated.