Author: Alexander Allardyce
Title: Memoir of the Honourable George Keith Elphinstone
Description: London, William Blackwood and Sons , 1882. First edition. Leather. Smart leather bound copy of George Keith Elphinstone's memoir by Alexander Allardyce. The first edition of this work. Written by Alexander Allardyce. Memoir of British naval officer of the Napoleonic Wars, George Elphinstone, 1st Viscount Keith, Admiral of the red. Collated, complete with half title, frontispiece, two full page plates, and four maps and plans, three of which folding. Ex libris from the library of John Loud Pelling, with his bookplate to front pastedown.  Rebound in full straight up grain morocco, renewed endpapers. Externally lovely with minor shelf wear only. Previous ownership inscription to verso front free endpaper dated 1999. Internally, firmly bound. Pages generally bright and clean. Near Fine . Ill.: Not Stated. Near Fine .

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