[NELSON, Horatio.] British Public Characters of 1798. London: R. Phillips, [1799.] 8vo (211 x 123mm.) Folding engraved frontispiece. (Browning to title, creasing to rear leaves, frontispiece repaired with large loss, blanks replaced.) 20th century brown half morocco over marbled paper-covered boards (endpapers replaced). Note: contains the first biographical sketch of Lord Nelson. Provenance: Captain John Lumley (name inscribed to title-page). - And a further thirty-four miscellaneous volumes (including 'Letters on the Elements of Botany, Addressed to a Lady', translated and adapted by Thomas Martyn from J.J. Rousseau, 1785, 8vo, and John Hill's 'The Family Herbal', 1812, 8vo) (35).