First edition: frontispiece portrait, 40 black and white plates, colour folding map at the back of the book, book sellers ticket on the back paste down end paper, orange pictorial cloth with gilt decoration, titled gilt on the spine, a very good copy.
Mendelssohn (Sidney) South African Bibliography vol.1 page 712: The authors claim that they should be exempted from " the reproach of prejudice," but a considerable portion of the work is devoted to a comparison of British methods of war in the American War of Independence and the South African War, and considerable objurgation of the English is manifested.... they assert " England has entered this war admittedly without casus belli.
- Overall Condition: Very good
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