ELIOT (Francis Percival)

Six Letters on the Subject of the Armed Yeomanry,

Addressed to the Rt. Hon. Earl Gower Sutherland, Colonel of the Staffordshire Volunteer Cavalry. By... Major in the above Corps. [New Edition]. Fine engraved frontispiece of mounted Staffs. Volunteer cavalryman from a drawing by the author, and six folding plates of evolutions at the rear. Some inked markings on the front free endpaper, light browning, otherwise very good in the original publisher's boards, rubbed, rebacked with the original, chipped, spine with paper label laid down. xvi, 230pp. errata leaf. Printed for the Author, and Sold by T. Egerton, Military Library, 1797.

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Uncommon, a survey of BLPC, OCLC, RLIN and KVK locates six copies in America, and one at the BL. An earlier issue entitled Letters on the Subject of Armed Yeomanry is referred to in several of the records, NUC locates two copies of this item, published in Stafford in 1794, with the note that it contains two letters, accounting for only 29pp. of text, a Letter, the Fourth... is also referred to, published in Stafford in 1796 comprising 24pp. Of a separate issue of "Letter, the Third..." we have found no trace.

Eliot was a civil servant, being one of the Commissioners of Audit at Somerset House for seventeen years. "He took a very great interest in the volunteer yeomanry service, [and] was successively Major and Colonel of the Staffordshire Volunteer Cavalry... " Most of his publications were on financial matters - exx. Demonstration, or Financial Remarks, with Occasional Observations on Political Occurences, 1807; Observations on the Fallacy of the Supposed Depreciation of the Paper Currency of the Kingdom... At the time of his death in 1818 he was "...writing largely for the Aegis, a weekly paper in which he was interested." [DNB]

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19129
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