Folio Archives 163: Nelson and Emma edited by Roger Hudson 1994
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Nelson and Emma edited by Roger Hudson 1994
The love story of heroic Admiral Horatio Nelson and the earthily beautiful Emma Hamilton is infamous. They were the social stars of their era, and the newspapers were filled with their activities. Nelson came from a relatively well-to-do family, while Emma was definitely lower class – they were both ambitious, but in very different ways.
Emma’s ardour, beauty and charm resulted in her being passed through the hands of several members of the aristocracy, as a mistress and wife, before finally becoming Nelson’s paramour while still married to Sir William Hamilton. Nelson was also married, but his wife Fanny could not compete with Emma’s charms.
The book details this famous romance through letters and contemporary accounts, and is lavishly illustrated with 92 integrated contemporary paintings, prints, cartoons and documents.. There are also 4 maps.
The book is quarter dark blue buckram with cream vegetable parchment boards that have embedded portraits of Nelson and Emma. The map endleaves show the Caribbean at the front and Mediterranean at the back. The wrap-around pictorial slipcase is 25.3x18.2cm. and the book has 256 pages. It was the presentation volume for 1995 (members received a free book every year if they ordered at least four titles in advance).
Montage of slipcase illustration
Front endpaper
Back endpapers
Page from FS prospectus
An index of the other illustrated reviews in the "Folio Archives" series can be viewed here.
The love story of heroic Admiral Horatio Nelson and the earthily beautiful Emma Hamilton is infamous. They were the social stars of their era, and the newspapers were filled with their activities. Nelson came from a relatively well-to-do family, while Emma was definitely lower class – they were both ambitious, but in very different ways.
Emma’s ardour, beauty and charm resulted in her being passed through the hands of several members of the aristocracy, as a mistress and wife, before finally becoming Nelson’s paramour while still married to Sir William Hamilton. Nelson was also married, but his wife Fanny could not compete with Emma’s charms.
The book details this famous romance through letters and contemporary accounts, and is lavishly illustrated with 92 integrated contemporary paintings, prints, cartoons and documents.. There are also 4 maps.
The book is quarter dark blue buckram with cream vegetable parchment boards that have embedded portraits of Nelson and Emma. The map endleaves show the Caribbean at the front and Mediterranean at the back. The wrap-around pictorial slipcase is 25.3x18.2cm. and the book has 256 pages. It was the presentation volume for 1995 (members received a free book every year if they ordered at least four titles in advance).
Montage of slipcase illustration
Front endpaper
Back endpapers
Page from FS prospectus
An index of the other illustrated reviews in the "Folio Archives" series can be viewed here.
3ubiquitousuk
I really appreciate these Folio Archives entries that look at idiosyncratic books that can be bought very cheap on the secondary market.
Can anyone who has read this book comment on its "readbility"—by which I mean do the mix of letters and other material form a narrative that's fun to read from start to end, or is this more the kind of book one would dip into occasionally?
Can anyone who has read this book comment on its "readbility"—by which I mean do the mix of letters and other material form a narrative that's fun to read from start to end, or is this more the kind of book one would dip into occasionally?
4Chemren
I was interested to see that this was the presentation volume for 1995, as that was around the time that I first started buying Folios. Since I couldn’t remember exactly when in the ‘90’s I started and I don’t have this one, I thought I would compare my presentation volumes to the list in Folio60 to see exactly where I started. Sure enough, the first presentation volume I got was the next one (Pre-Raphaelites and their World) so I would have been getting the join up offer the year this came out.
