8vo. 229pp, [19]. With an engraved folding map and a terminal catalogue of publisher's advertisements. Original publisher's navy cloth, lettered in gilt to spine and upper board. A trifle rubbed and marked. Contemporary and later inked ownership inscriptions to FFEP and title page, map torn along one fold.

The first edition of military historian George Bruce Malleson's (1825-1898) biography of army officer in the East India Company and administrator in India Robert Clive, first Baron Clive of Plassey (1725-1774).