Essays, Biographical, Historical, and Miscellaneous, Contributed Chiefly to the Edinburgh and Quarterly Reviews by Rev. G. R. Gleig, Chaplain-General to Her Majesty’s Forces, and Prebendary of St. Paul’s Volume I (of 2)

***PROVENANCE: Gifted from Charles Algernon Whitmore to William Turner on Christmas in 1865 upon graduating from Eton.

Charles Algernon Whitmore ( September 1851 - 10 September 1908) was a British barrister and Conservative Party politician. He sat in the House of Commons from 1886 to 1906, as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Chelsea. He would have been only 14 at the time of his gifting of the book and attending Eton himself when he gifted this to his graduating schoolmate. Eton College is a public school (fee-charging and boarding for secondary school age boys) in Eton, Berkshire, England.***

OVERALL CONDITION: VG

Published in 1858 by Longman, Bown, et al. in London. First edition. Bound in contemporary full leather. Octavo, 8.75” x 5.5”, xi, 467 pp. Vol I only of 2 volumes.

The book was finely bound in green, full calf Victorian leather contemporary to time of publishing. Five raised gilded spine bands and compartments filled with intricate gilt design work and two leather spine labels. All edges marbled with matching marbled endpapers. Triple fillets (ruled line) paneling - two gilt and one in blind. Sewn-in blue silk ribbon placeholder.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

George Robert Gleig (20 April 1796 – 9 July 1888) was a Scottish soldier, military writer, and priest. Gleig was appointed Chaplain-General of the Forces in 1844, resigned 1875; from 1846 to 1857 he was Inspector-General of Military Schools. From 27 March 1848, he was a member of the Canterbury Association and joined the management committee, but resigned again on 25 November 1851.

Gleig was a frequent contributor to reviews and magazines, especially Blackwood's Magazine, in which his best-known novel, The Subaltern, appeared in installments. He was also the author of Lives of Warren Hastings, Robert Clive, and Wellington, Military Commanders, Chelsea Pensioners, and other works.

CONDITION DESCRIPTION:

The book is in VERY GOOD- to VERY GOOD condition - strongly bound with a square spine, firm hinges and joints and tight pages. Rubbing to spine, edges, joints, boards and corners. Corners are bumped. Leather spine labels starting to peal at the edges. Scratches and a few small gashes to the leather. Top of front board faded and bottom of front board with a water dampening stain. Former owner bookplate on front pastedown. Gift inscription from Charles Algernon Whitmore on a front flyleaf. Evidence of pencil writing erasure on several flyleafs. Some scattered spots of foxing, but very mild. About a dozen pages have “splash staining” from a liquid on the right or left margins. About a dozen pages with slightly bent corners.

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