A NARRATIVE OF OCCURRENCES IN THE INDIAN COUNTRIES OF NORTH AMERICA, Since the Connexion of the Right Hon. the Earl of Selkirk with the Hudson's Bay Company, and His Attempt to Establish a Colony on the Red River.; With a Detailed Account of His Lordship's Military Expedition to, and Subsequent Proceedings at Fort William, in Upper Canada. Presentation copy signed by W.E. Gladstone, British Prime Minister and politician.

London: Printed by B. McMillan, et al, 1817. Book. Very good+ condition. Hardcover. Signed . First Edition. Octavo (8vo). xiv, 152 pages, followed by [iv], 87 pages. Original quarter leather binding with marbled paper-covered boards; rebacked with original spine laid-down. Top edge of pages gilt covered. Signed by W. E. Gladstone on the title page, given to him by his father, Sir John Gladstone at Fasque in 1848. Engraved bookplate of W.E. Gladstone affixed to inside front cover. Authorship of this anonymously published work is sometimes attributed to Simon McGillivary and Edward Ellice, the elder, but was likely prepared by Samuel Hull Wilcocke. Pages [iii-iv] and [1]-2 of the second work are about a quarter inch shorter than all other pages, and are transposed. The text is clean and unmarked. William Ewart Gladstone (1809-1898). Bibliography: Sabin 20699; TPL 1108; Lande 1313; Peel 44. First edition.. (Inventory #: 020259)