Charles Elliot R. N. 1801-1875: A Servant of Britain Overseas by Clagette Blake Publisher: Paton, Great Britain, 1960 First edition. Very good hardcover, name on ffep. Jacket is not price clipped is chipped at edges and a small closed tear on top corner and top of spine, some fading and marks. 2 question marks and 2 lines in ink on back of jacket.

In blue buckram with light blue label and gold lettering on spine and gold facsimile signature on front cover. illustrated.

Charles Elliot was for the last half of his life virtually in the service of the Foreign or the Colonial Office and had a hand in the marginal history from the abolition of slavery to the Opium War and Texan independence