MEMOIR RESPECTING BRITISH INTERESTS AND THE INTERESTS OF THE NATIVE TRIBES

At and near Natal

In South - Eastern Africa.

First edition: 20 pages, xi, folding map, original brown paper wrappers – back cover is missing, simply repaired with tape on the spine, a good copy, now housed in a specially made solander box with red title gilt on the cover, booksellers ticket on the inside front cover, slightly worn on the spine.

A South African Bibliography vol 1 page125: This appears to be an earlier edition of this Memoir respecting the colonization of Natal. Only one copy listed is private possession, which is this one.

There is a detailed biographical sketch of Saxe Bannister in the Dictionary of South African Biography vol 1 page 50 (copy included)

See also the entry in the Dictionary of National Biography 1885 -1900: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/Bannister,_Saxe