THE VICTORIAN ERA IN SOUTH AFRICA (Author’s copy)

With portraits and maps

First edition: 102 pages, colour maps, portraits, book plate of the authro on the front paste down end paper, ownership mark on the front free end paper, light foxing mainly on the preliminary and end pages, fore edge and top edge uncut, half red leather with matching marbled boards, titled gilt with decoration on the spine, a good copy.

Loosely inserted is a page from the African Critic dated Sept. 4 1897 with an advert for this book with several reviews on it.

Mendelssohn (Sidney) South African Bibliography, volume 1, page 211: An account of South Africa during the first sixty years of Queen Victoria's reign.The history embraces all the salient occurrences of this period including the subjects of dispute between the Dutch and British systems of government, which ultimately culminated in the South African War of 1899-1902.

Of Mr. Rhodes it is remarked that he "is a man of vast ambitions and of very strongly developed will power," and Paul Kruger is characterised as being, "within his somewhat narrow limits, an extremely able man." It is stated that one of the effects of the Raid was that " A great wave of Afrikander resentment swept over Africa " ; but the opinion is expressed that " President Kruger and his advisers, in spite of recent armaments, are not likely to push matters to the arbitrament of war." There are two maps, one showing the British possessions in South Africa in 1837 and the other in 1897.