8vo. x, 334pp. With an engraved portrait frontispiece. Original publisher's brown cloth, lettered in gilt to spine, printed paper dustwrapper. A trifle rubbed, dustwrapper lightly marked, chipped at head and foot of spine panel. Iked gift inscription to recto of FFEP, scattered spotting.

The first edition of an authoritative biography of British Army officer Charles George Gordon (1833-1885) positioned as 'a final vindication of one of the greatest Englishmen of the nineteenth or of any other century', providing a 'full account of Gordon during the latter part of his life, of his campaign for the suppression of the slave-trade, his forced retirement, his return to Egypt, and his epic stand and heroic death after an agony of waiting at Khartoum'.