EARDLEY-WILMOT, Captain S. Life of Vice-Admiral Edmund, Lord Lyons … With an account of Naval Operations in the Black Sea and Sea of Azoff, 1854-56. London, Sampson Low, 1898.
0vo. Original illustrated cloth, top edge gilt; pp. xiv, [2], 437, [2, publisher's catalogue], lithographic portrait-frontispiece with tissue guard, numerous plates with tissue guards after painitngs and drawings, minimal marking to cloth, offsetting from endpapers to initial and final few leaves, extensivve pencil annotations by previous bookdealer to endpapers; a very good copy.
First edition of th first full-length biography of Edmund Lyons,1st Baron Lyrons (1790-1858) and famous naval commander during the Crimean War. He contributed largely to the British advancement on Crimea and beyond. He had gone first to sea on board HMS Terrible in 1798 and served the Royal Navy with great panache and intitiative until the end of the Crimean War.
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