Horatio Nelson, a bibliography.

• In commemoration of the one hundredth anniversary of the death of Lord Nelson at the battle of Trafalgar, Tremont Temple, Boston, Mass, USA, Saturday, October twenty-first, MCMV. Official programme.
  University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1905. 4to, [36] pp, ill. Victorian Club (Boston, Mass.)
• "The Immortal Memory". Admiral Horatio Nelson, 1758-1805.
  The Mariners' Museum, Newsport News, VA, 1987. 4to, 32 pp, ill. Catalogue of the exhibition held September 27, 1986 - March 22, 1987.
• Leven van Lord Horatio Nelson, Admiraal in Engelschen dienst, Hertog van Bronte enz.
  A. Loosjes, Haarlem, 1806. 8vo, 55 pp.
• Life and achievements of Lord Nelson, who fell in the glorious victory obtained over the combined fleets of France and Spain, off Cape Trafalgar, on the 21st October 1805 ....
  E. Young, London, 1805. 8vo, 36 pp.
• The life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Baron of the Nile, Duke of Bronte, in farther Sicily ....
  J. Hartley, Halifax, 1841 (4th). 8vo, 344 pp.
• Memoirs of the life and death of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson ... comprehending authentic details of his glorious achievements under the British flag ... also a sketch of the life of Sir Sydney Smith.
  C. Goodchild, Liverpool, 1806. 8vo, 268, [6], 45p, folded plates.
• The Nelson Collection, Monmouth, Catalogue.
  Monmouthshire Beacon, Monmouth, c1930. 8vo, 27 pp.
• "A Captain of the British Navy": Memoirs of the life and achievements of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson.
  H.D. Symonds & J. Hatchard & J. Ridgway, London, 1805 (4th). 8vo, engr. fp, 116 pp.
• Baquer, Antonio (tr): Vida del Vice Almirante Lord Vizconde de Nelson, Duque de Bronte traducida del Portugues al Espanol ....
  Mariano de Zuniga y Ontiveros, Mexico, 1806. 8vo, 20, [8] pp.
• Baylis, T Henry: The True account of Nelson's famous signal.
  Allen, London, 1905. 8vo, 32 pp.
• Beatty, William: Authentic narrative of the death of Lord Nelson: with the circumstances preeceding, attending, and subsequent to, that event; the professional report of his lordship's wound; and several interesting anecdotes. T. Cadell & W. Davies, London, 1807. 8vo, engr. fp, iv, 100 pp, plate. By a surgeon to the Victory in the battle of Trafalgar, and now physician to the fleet under the command of the Earl of St Vincent.
• Bennet, Geoffrey: Nelson, the Commander.
  Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1972. (4), 322 pp, ill, 15 pl.
• Beresford, Charles William de Poer & Wilson, Herbert Wrigley: Nelson and his times.
  Harmsworth, London, 1897. +12mo, fp, viii, 232 pp, ill.
• Bethune, John Drinkwater: A narrative of the battle of St Vincent with anecdotes of Nelson before and after that battle.
  Saunders & Otley, London, 1840 (2nd). 4to, 97 pp.
• Bourdet-Pléville, Michel: Nelson.
  Fasquelle Editeurs, Anvers, 1953. 8vo, 269 pp, ill.
• Bradford, Ernle: Nelson. Tthe essential hero.
  Granada, London, 1979. 8vo, 368 pp, ill.
• Browne, G. Lathom: Nelson. The public and private life of Horatio, Viscount Nelson, as told by himself, his comrades, and his friends.
  T. Fisher Unwin, London, 1891. 8vo, 472 pp.
• Bryant, Arthur: Nelson.
  Collins, Glasgow, 1970. 159 pp, ill., 4 pl.
• Callender, Geoffrey A.R.: The life of Nelson.
  Longmans, Green, London, 1912. 8vo, fp, xxxviii, 154 pp, 12 pl.
• Charnock, John: Biographical memoirs of Lord Viscount Nelson, &c, &c, &c with observations, critical and explanatory.
  H.D. Symonds & J. Hatchard, London, 1806. 8vo, xviii, 430, 80 pp, engr. tp, 6 plates.
• Clarke, James Stanier & MacArthur, John: The life of Admiral Lord Nelson, KB.
  T. Cadell & W. Davies & W. Miller, London, 1809. 2 vols, 4to, ill.
• Clarke, Richard: The life of Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson ... with biographical particulars of contemporary naval officers. To which is added a correct narrative of the ceremonies attending his funeral.
  J. & J. Cundee, London, 1813. 8vo, 560 pp.
• Clarke, James Stanier & M'Arthur, John: The life and services of Horatio Viscount Nelson.
  Fisher, London, ca1840. 8vo, 7v.
• Clarke, James Stanier & M'Arthur, John: The Life and Services of Horatio Viscount Nelson, From His Lordship's Manuscripts.
  Fisher, London, [1840 (3rd)]. 3 vols, 8vo.
• Cobb, G. Wheatly: The Nelson touch at Trafalgar.
  1911. 4to, pp 1157-1180, 1265-1292.
• Corbett-Smith, A.: Nelson. The man. A portrait study.
  Williams & Norgate, London, 1926. 8vo, 364p, plate.
• Dawson, Warren R.: The Nelson Collection at Lloyd's. A description of the Nelson relics and a transcript of the autograph letters and documents of Nelson and his circle and of other Naval papers of Nelson's period.
  Corporation of Lloyd's, London, 1932. -4to, 525 pp, 21 plates.
• Duncan, Archibald: The life of the late most noble Lord Horatio Nelson, Viscount and Baron Nelson of the Nile ... including ample and authentic accounts of the brilliant victories ... with interesting anecdotes of distinguished naval officers ....
  J. Nuttall, Liverpool & James Cundee, London, 1806. 8vo, 370, 47 pp & 396 pp & 419 pp.
• Field, Bradda: Miledi. Being the strange story of Emy Lyon, a blacksmith's daughter, who married His Britannic Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at the Court of Naples and became Emma, Lady Hamilton, companion of royalty and the true friend of Vice-Admiral Lord Nelson, KB, Duke of Bronte.
  Constable, London, 1942. 8vo, 979 pp, ill.
• Fitchett, W.H.: Nelson and his captains. Sketches of famous seamen.
  Smith, Elder, London, 1904. 8vo, 322 pp.
• Fremantle, E.R.: Nelson's tactics at Trafalgar.
  1905. 4to, pp 38-51.
• Gervais, André: Un grand ennemi: Nelson. La grande legende de la mer.
  La Renaissance du Livre, Paris, 1931. -8vo, 246 pp, frontisp.
• Grenfell, Russell: Nelson the sailor.
  Faber & Faber, London, 1949. 8vo, fp, xii, 236 pp, ill., 4 pl.
• Grenfell, Russell: Horatio Nelson : a short biography.
  Faber & Faber, London, 1952 (2nd). 8vo, 247 pp, ill.
• Gutteridge, H.C. ed.: Nelson and the Neapolitan Jacobins. Documents relating to the suppression of the Jacobin revolution at Naples, June 1799.
  NRS Vol. 25, London, 1903. 8vo, fp, cviii, 352 pp, maps.
• Gye, Clara E.E.: Nelson. His life as told by himself.
  Gale & Polden, London, 1905. 8vo, 88 pp.
• Hammond, Joseph: Nelson and Trafalgar. The man and the deed.
  Skeffington, London, 1905. 8vo, 16 pp.
• Hardy, Thomas A.: Commemorative medals of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson.
  Nelson Society, North Walsham, 1985. 8vo, 40 p, ill.
• Harrison, James: The life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson ....
  C. Chapple, London, 1806. 2 vols, 4to.
• Hewitt, James ed.: Eye-witnesses to Nelson's battles.
  Osprey, Reading, 1972. 206 pp.
• Hibbert, Christopher: Nelson. A personal history.
  Penguin, London, 1994. 8vo, 472p, plates.
• Horsley, Samuel: A sermon preached in the cathedral church of Saint Asaph, on Thursday, December 5, 1805, being the day of public thanksgiving for the victory obtained by Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson over the combined fleets of France and Spain off Cape Trafalgar.
  J. Hatchard, London, 1806. 4to, 27 pp.
• Howarth, David: Trafalgar. The Nelson Touch.
  Collins, London, 1969. 8vo, 254 pp, ill.
• Howarth, David & Howarth, Stephen: The Immortal Memory.
  J.N. Dent, London, 1988. 390 pp, ill.
• Kennedy, L.H.C.: The Band of Brothers.
  1951. Published in the United States as Nelson's Captains.
• Kerr, A.E.F.: The Sailor's Nelson.
  Hurst & Blackett, London, 1932. 8vo, fp, (6), 288 pp, ill.
• Kircheisen, Friedrich M.: Nelson. The establishment of British world dominion.
  Hutchinson, London, 1931. 8vo, 288 pp, ill.
• Laughton, John Knox: Nelson.
  Macmillan, London, 1895. 8vo, fp, x, 240 pp.
• Laughton, John Knox: The Nelson memorial. Nelson and his companions in arms.
  George Allen, London, 1896 (2nd). 4to, fp, xvi, 352 pp, ill., 32 pl.
• Laughton, John Knox: The pocket life of Nelson. Being a reprint of the biographical entry by J. K. L. extracted from the Dictionary of National Biography.
  1805 Club, Eugene, OR, 1993. 4to, 27 pp.
• Lloyd, Christopher: Nelson and Sea Power.
  The English Universities Press, London, 1973. 156 pp.
• Lloyd, Christopher: The Nile campaign. Nelson and Napoleon in Egypt.
  David & Charles, Newton Abbot, 1973. 4to, 120 pp.
• Lloyd, Frederick: An accurate and impartial life of the late Lord Viscount Nelson ... together with private anecdotes ....
  J Fowler, Ormskirk, 1806. 8vo, 252 pp.
• Mahan, Alfred Thayer: The Life of Nelson, the embodiment of the sea power of Great Britain.
  Sampson Low, London, 1897. 2 vols, 8vo, fp, (2), xxviii, 454 pp, 19 pl & fp, (2) xx, 428 pp, 18 pl.
• Mahan, Alfred Thayer: Lord Nelson. Grundläggaren av Storbrittaniens herravälde över haven.
  P.A. Norstedt, Stockholm, 1913. 8vo, 395 pp, 3 pl. An abbreviated translation into Swedish of Mahan's Life of Nelson done by sub-lieutenant D. Landquist.
• Mark, William: At Sea with Nelson. Being the life of William Mark, a purser who served under Admiral Nelson.
  Sampson Low, London, 1929. 8vo, 244 pp, ill.
• Marriott, Leo: What's left of Nelson.
  Dial House, Shepperton, 1995. 8vo, 160 pp, ill.
• Matcham, M. Eyre: The Nelsons of Burnham Thorpe. A record of a Norfolk family compiled from unpublished letters and notebooks 1787-1842.
  The Bodley Head, London, 1911. 8vo, 306 pp.
• Matcham, George: Notes on the character of Admiral Lord Nelson in relation to the journal of Mrs St George.
  James Ridgway, London, 1861. 4to, 15 pp.
• Moorhouse, E Hallam: Nelson in England. A domestic chronicle.
  Chapman & Hall, London, 1913. 8vo, 274 pp, ill.
• Morriss, Roger & Lavery, Brian & Deuchar, Stephen: Nelson : an illustrated history.
  Laurence King & National Maritime Museum, London, 1995. 4to, 176 pp, ill.
• Mountbatten, Louis Alexander: Nelson medals : illustrated description of the medals struck in honour of Admiral Lord Nelson, collected by Admiral the Marquess of Milford Haven.
  1918. 29 pp.
• Naish, George P.B.: Nelson and Brontë. An illustrated guide to his life and times.
  HMSO, London, 1958. 8vo, 28 pp, 24 pl.
• Nash, Michael (int): The Nelson masks. Conference/Meeting etc. : Symposium on the Nelson Masks (1992 : Portsmouth)
  Marine Books, Hoylake, 1993. 8vo, 18 pp, ill.
• Nelson, Horatio: Letters from Admiral Lord Nelson to Hercules Ross Esq of Rossie, NB, 1780-1802.
  c1891. 8vo, 16 pp.
• Nelson, Horatio: Lord Nelson's letters to Lady Hamilton.
  Library Press, London, 1905. 8vo, 152 pp, ill.
• Nelson, Horatio: The Letters of Lord Nelson to Lady Hamilton : with a supplement of interesting letters by distinguished characters.
  Thomas Lovewell, London, 1814. 2 vols, 8vo. Compiled by James Harrison.
• Nicolas, Nicholas Harris: The Dispatches and Letters of Vice-Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson.
  Henry Colburn, London, 1844-46. 7 vols, 8vo, xlviii, 504 pp, 1 plate & fp, (2), xxviii, 496 pp & fp, (2), xxvi, 528 pp & fp, xxxii, 542 pp & xxxviii, 524 pp & fp, xxxvi, 502 pp & fp, xxxii, 424, ccxc pp, ill., 1 plate.
• Oman, C.M.A.: Nelson, a bibliography.
  Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1947. 8vo, xvi, 734 pp, 12 pl.
• Orme, Edward & Blagdon, Francis William: Orme's graphic history of the life, exploits, and death of Horatio Nelson ... containing fifteen engravings ... the battle off St Vincent's, the Nile and Trafalgar.
  Longmans, Hurst, Rees & Orme, London, 1806. 4to.
• Padfield, Peter: Nelson's war.
  Hart-Davis, MacGibbon, London, 1976. 4to, 198 pp, ill.
• Pettigrew, Thomas Joseph: Memoirs of the life of Vice-Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson, KB ....
  T. & W. Boone, London, 1849 (2nd). 2 vols, 8vo.
• Pocock, Tom: Nelson and his World.
  Thames & Hudson, London, 1968. 4to, 142 pp, ill.
• Pocock, Tom: The Young Nelson in the Americas.
  Collins, London, 1980. 8vo, 241 pp.
• Pocock, Tom: Horatio Nelson.
  Bodley Head, London, 1987. 4to, 364 pp, plates.
• Pope, Dudley: England Expects.
  Weidenfield, London, 1959. 8vo, 368 pp, ill.
• Pugh, P.D. Gordon: Nelson and his surgeons. Nelson chirurgiique.
  E. & S. Livingstone, Edinburgh, 1968. 4to, 68 pp, ill.
• Rawson, Geoffrey ed.: Letters from Lord Nelson.
  Staples Press, London, 1949.
• Rawson, Geoffrey ed.: Nelson's Letters from the Leeward Islands and other Original Documents in the Public Records Office and the British Museum.
  The Golden Cockerel Press, 1953.
• Richardson, Patrick: Nelson's navy.
  Longmans, London, 1967. 8vo, 106 pp.
• Sargeaunt, B.E.: An Account of Lord Nelson's signal. "England expects that every man will do his duty".
  Royal United Service Institution, London, 1908. 8vo, 5 pp.
• Southey, Robert: The Life of Nelson.
  John Murray, London, 1813. 2 vols, 8vo, engr. fp, viii, 254 pp & engr. fp, viii, 276 pp.
• Southey, Robert: Southey's life of Nelson.
  J.M. Dent, London, 1922. 8vo, 339 pp.
• Strahan, Richard, Sir: Authentic memoirs of the brave and much-lamented Adml Lord Nelson, the idol of his country ....
  J. Roach, London, c1805. 8vo, 40 pp.
• Swaffer, Hannen: What would Nelson do?
  Gollancz, London, 1946. 8vo, 135 pp.
• Thompson, G.: The life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Baron of the Nile ....
  J.S. Pratt, London, 1841. 8vo, 350 pp.
  J.S. Pratt, London, 1843. 8vo, 316 pp.
  J.S. Pratt, London, 1844. 8vo, c350 pp.
• Thursfield, James R.: Nelson and other naval studies.
  John Murray, London, 1909. 8vo, 384 pp.
• Tucker, John Montmorency: The life and naval memoirs of Lord Nelson ....
  Willoughby, London, ca1845. 8vo, 464 pp.
• Tunstall, Brian: Nelson.
  Duckworth, London, 1933. 8vo, 143 pp.
• Walder, David: Nelson: A Biography.
  Dial Press, New York, 1978. 538 pp.
• Walder, David: Nelson.
  Hamish Hamilton, London, 1978. 8vo, 538 pp.
• Warner, Oliver: Nelson.
  Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1975. 4to, 231 pp, ill.
• Warner, Oliver: Lord Nelson.
  Christofer, Stockholm, 1959. 8vo, 306 pp, ill., 4 pl, 2 maps.
• Warner, Oliver: Nelson and the age of fighting sail.
  American Heritage, New York, 1963. 8vo, 154 pp, ill.
• Warner, Oliver: Nelson's battles.
  1965.
• Warner, Oliver: A portrait of Lord Nelson.
  Chatto & Windus, London, 1953. 8vo, fp, xii, 372 pp, 15 pl.
  Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1963. 399 pp, ill., 4 pl.
• Whipple, A.B.C.: All about Nelson.
  W.H. Allen, London, 1966. 8vo, fp, vi, 184 pp, ill.
• White, Colin ed.: The Nelson Companion.
  Royal Naval Museum, Portsmouth, 1995. 4to, 228 pp, ill.
• White, Joshua: Lebensbeschreibung des Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson ...
  August Campe, Hamburg, 1806. 8vo, 186p, folded plates.
• White, Joshua: Memoirs of the professional life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson ... with biographical particulars of contemporary naval officers.
  James Cundee, London, 1806 (2nd). 8vo, 347 pp.
• White, Joshua: Memoirs of the professional life of the late most noble Lord Horatio Nelson ... with biographical particulars of contemporary naval officers ... to which is added ... the ceremonies attending his funeral.
  James Cundee, London, 1806 (3rd). 8vo, 419, 77 pp.
• Wilkinson, C.A.: Nelson.
  Harrap, London, 1931. 8vo, fp, x, 322 pp, 21 pl.
• Wood, Thomas: Victory and death : the substance of a discourse delivered December 5, 1805 : the day of general thanksgiving for the total defeat of the combined fleets by Lord Nelson. In aid of the patriotic fund.
  The Author, Huddersfield, 1806. 8vo, 24 pp.

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