8vo. In three volumes. xxvi, 520; iv, 454; viii, 437pp, [1]. With an engraved portrait frontispiece to Vol. I, and an engraved folding map. Contemporary gilt-tooled sheep, contrasting dark brown morocco lettering-pieces. Rubbed, joints starting, spines sunned. Short tear to fore-edge of leaf N2 of Vol. I, else internally clean and crisp. From the library of successful merchant of Scottish origin and later M.P. for Lancaster, Woodstock and Berwick, Sir John Gladstone (1761-1851), with the book-label of his country estate Fasque to all FEPs.

The first edition, in an unusual, and decidedly un-British binding, of chaplain to the armed forces George Robert Gleig's (1796- 1888) authoritative biography of British colonial administrator, officer in the East Indian Company Army, and sometime governor of Madras, Thomas Munro (1761- 1827).