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Auction #115 begins on 30 May 2024

Stead (W.T.) Editor:

LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF CECIL JOHN RHODES

Published: “Review of Reviews” Office, London, 1902

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With Elucidatory Notes to which are added some chapters describing the Political and Religious Ideas of the Testator.

198 pages, frontispiece portrait of Rhodes, many plates and illustrations (plate at page 9 seems to have been excised and reattached), original green cloth worn and dull.

Presentation letter from Stead on his The Review of Reviews letter head laid down on the front paste-down endpaper and a presentation inscription on the front free endpaper. The letter is to G.C.

Jarvis an early Rhodes Scholar – steads requests a signed portrait for a gallery of Rhodes Scholars which he is creating and he invites Jarvis to visit him at his offices in London.

  • Binding Condition: Fair
  • Overall Condition: Fair
  • Size: 8vo (225 x 145 mm)
  • Sold By: Clarke's Africana & Rare Books
  • Contact Person: Paul Mills
  • Country: South Africa
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