Southey's 'Nelson' : bibliography of the 1813 - 1857 English editions of Robert's Southey's Life of Nelson /Michael Nash.

"Robert Southey had been living in his Cumberland home of Greta Hall for seven years by the time he received an inivitation from the editor of the Quarterly Review, William Gifford, to write an assessment of the principal biographies of Lord Nelson published since the Admiral's heroic death at Trafalgar in 1805. [...] Southey's 'Nelson' follows the fortunes of the Poet Laureate's Life of Nelson from 1813 to 1857 during which twenty-four books are examined in detail. Along the way we discover, for example, that some of these publications are not editions at all, but disguised remainders. We learn of the agreement reached between John Murray and Thomas Tegg and how that agreement was breached. We discover the tenuous relationships that existed between John Murray and his printers; how the latter were forever treading on eggshells in order to maintain their business ties with the most successful London bookseller of the early nineteenth century."--Provided by the publisher.