Beloved Emma : The Life Of Emma Lady Hamilton
x, 410pp plus central section of plate illustrations. Illustrated endpapers. Indexed. Orange cloth boards (slightly faded at extreme edges). Internally neat, clean, tight. In its original dust jacket (a tad faded and bumped at edges, previous bookseller's price label on rear). Biography of Emma, Lady Hamilton, the daughter of a Cheshire blacksmith, the wife of Sir William Hamilton, British Minister at Naples, intimate friend of the Queen of Naples and mistress of Admiral Lord Nelson.