Complete and unabridged, with 59 full-page plates by Thomas Luny, Richard Parkes Bonington and J. M. W. Turner. Emma Hamilton from the blacksmith's daughter to Naples and Nelson, and the years after Trafalgar when the nation forgot its promise to look after her. Beck wrote it in 1924 and it was filmed with Corinne Griffith. This edition carries fifty-nine plates of paintings bound with the text, among them works by John Crome, Edvard Munch and Peter Monamy, alongside a restored and coloured illustration.