Nelson & Emma
Subtitle: Aphrodite & Ares contemplate Admiral Nelson & Lady Hamilton
By: Charles Hobsen
Contributors: Pacific Editions; Press Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Pacific Editions
Published: 2008
Place of publication: [San Francisco]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 10
Subjects: Toy and movable books; Artists' books; Relations with women; Specimens; Ares (Greek deity); Aphrodite (Greek deity)
Other titles: Nelson and Emma
Notes: 35 copies.

"Built around five signatures called 'intermezzos' attached to a concertina spine.  Each intermezzo has a unique abstract acrylic painting on paper, an image of an historic sea battle printed on transparent film, a Renaissance-era painting of Aphrodite colored with acrylic wash, and a page with cutout windows.  The book concludes with a pop-up square-rigged vessel containing the images of Admiral Nelson and Aphrodite"--Colophon.

Issued in a slipcase.

LC has copy no. 26, signed by the artist.