SOUTH AFRICA AND THE TRANSVAAL WAR

8 volumes, over 1600 pages, colour frontispiece in each volume, 64 colour plates, 61 sepia portraits, numerous black & white illustrations, 77 maps - 5 folding, brown pictorial cloth, foxing on some endpapers and edges, starting to fray at the top and the bottom of the spines, corners slightly bumped, the first 7 volumes in brown pictorial cloth; volume 8 is bound in blue cloth with gilt titling on the upper cover and spine, overall a good set.

This set is complete with the two supplementary volumes: VII, The Guerrilla War, from February 1901 to the conclusion of hostilities. The development of peace negotiations from February 23, 1901 to May 31, 1902, and VIII, South Africa and Its Future. Volume 7 was published in London, by the Caxton Publishing Co.

Mendelssohn (Sidney) South African Bibliography volume 1 page 392: In the publisher's note, inserted in the sixth volume, it is stated that " The prolongation of the war far beyond the calculation of those best able to form an opinion on the subject, has necessarily affected the plan of Creswicke 's 1 South Africa and the Transvaal War.' " The author and publisher, however, " have decided to adhere closely to the plan of the work sketched in the original prospectus." Thus, " Vol. VI brings to a close the history of the war as far as the annexation of the Transvaal is concerned. ... A condensed account is also given of the subsequent guerilla warfare down to March 1901."Vol. VI possesses a " Gazetteer " of South Africa, a biographical record of the " prominent actors connected with the South African Campaign," and a list of the " Recipients of the Victoria Cross." Vol. VII is characterised as " An additional and strictly supplementary volume, dealing with Lord Kitchener's regime as Commander-in-Chief and the guerilla war." Vol. VIII is a compilation of articles and short works on South Africa by various authors, together with an appendix entitled " Mr. Chamberlain and the Boer Generals." The eight volumes are profusely illustrated with black and white and coloured engravings, and there are a number of excellent maps.