Coomassie and Magdala

1 volume. First edition.

Publishers green pictorial beveled boards.

Gilt portrait vignettes on cover with blind stamped forest background.

Gilt title and tribal vignette on spine.

Book-plates on inside endpaper.

Presented to Andover Literary Institute from the library

of Thomas Francis Roberts, University College Wales, 1920.

A second bookplate ex libris I & F.W. Hosken, 1979.

xiv, 510 pages + [2], 48 page publishers catalogue.

With numerous illustrations from drawings by Melton Prior

(special artist in Ashantee of the Illustrated London News);

and other artists and two folding maps.

Coomassie and Magdala is the story of the great British

Campaigns in East and West Africa. "Commassie was a town

insulated by a deadly swamp. A thick jungle forest - so dense

that the sun seldom pierced he foliage, so sickly that the

strongest fell victims to the malaria it cherished - surrounded

it to a depth of 140 miles seaward, many hundred miles east,

as many more west, and 1000 miles north. Through this forest

and swamp, unrelieved by a single novelty or a single pretty

landscape, the British army had to march;

H.M.Stanley, Preface 

Recorded shipping weight 2000g.

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