1. Raid on the Transvaal - Edited by P.E. Aston
Published: Dean & Son Limited, London, 1896.
306 pages, frontispiece of Dr. L.S. Jameson, 1896 first edition by Dean & Son, Limited. A clean copy tightly bound.
2. The Story of an African Crisis - By F.E. Garrett
Being the Truth abouth the Jameson Raid and Johannesburg Revolt of 1896, told with the assistance of the leading actors in the drama.
Published: Archibald Constable & Co, Westminster, 1897
Edition: New enlarged and revised
xxxi; 308 pages; 12 pages of adverts at rear. Orange pictorial cloth. Some wear to spine ends, name of previous owner on ffep. Page 143 has a wee bit of paper loss on th edge, see picture. Very light foxing on a few pages only.
A comprehensive account of the Jameson Raid, the incidents which led up to it, and the subsequent complications. The author discusses the various attitudes of statesmen concerned, summerising them under four headings which suggest: (1) What Lord Ripen presumably sanctioned, and what Lord Loch did in 1894; (2) What Mr. Chamberlain was probably prepared to sanction in 1895; (3) What Mr. Rhodes was probably prepared to sanction; (4) What Jameson actually did. He remarks that "while Dutchmen denounce the raid as privateering for the Union Jack," it seems a little squalid that some Englishmen should be denouncing it as a "stock-jobbing speculation" and observes that while Chamberlain's trump card is the Boer intrigue with Berlin, Kruger's trump card "would be the conviction of the Colonial Secretary of complicity in the Jameson Raid." (Mendelssohn volume 1 page 590)
3. Jameson's Heroic Charge
A scarce booklet printed for the publishers in February, 1896, by Fenwick & Co., Exley's Buildings, 17 Sauer Street in Johannesburg S.A.R. (South African Republic).
This booklet was published one month after Dr. Leander Starr Jameson's infamous raid into the Transvaal Republic.
39pp. with adverts at the rear and a quite humorous advert on the front cover. Stapled binding.
Pages white with no markings. Slight wear around the spine edges and a wee bit of paper loss at the rar cover.
'A brochure written as a counterblast to the pamphlet "The Revolution-and After." There is a summary of the charges against the Boers and their government, and it is stated that, "when the National Union gave up all hope, the Capitalists stepped in." The allegations in "The Revolution-and After" are denied in violent language, and it is asserted that a false letter, and an equally false telegram, were sent to Jameson, and that the Reform Committee were dumbfounded on receipt of the news that he had crossed the border. The author of Part II. purports "to give a true and impartial history of Jameson's ride, as furnished by one who was in it from start to finish," and full details are given of the Raid and the subsequent surrender. There is a government official list of the killed and wounded in Jameson's column; also the names of the Reform Committee, and the amounts subscribed by different firms and persons under the name of the Relief Fund, a list of "The Charter(ed) Prisoners," and the official account of the Boers killed and wounded.' See Mendelssohn, Vol.I. page 768.
4. From Manifesto to Trial
State Library reprint series volume 55. Printed 1970. A reprint of the 1896 edition. Cloth hardcover with 287 pages in very good condition.
Mendelssohn (Sidney) SOUTH AFRICAN BIBLIOGRAPHY volume 1 page 770: The volume commences with the '.' Manifesto " published by the Transvaal National Union on Thursday, December 26, 1895, which is signed by Charles Leonard, and addressed to the people of the Transvaal. There is a description of the effect of the publication in Johannesburg, where it was regarded as the prelude to immediate warfare, and the immediate result was the flight of many of the inhabitants, a number of the refugees being killed in a terrible railway accident at Glencoe. Chapter II. details the events connected with the Raid, including President Kruger's letter to the inhabitants of the Rand, and a report from certain delegates of the Orange Free State Volksraad respecting the political state of the Transvaal. There is a resume of the preliminary examination, and of the subsequent trial of the Reform Committee prisoners, and a short account of later occurrences in connection with the Raid, including the trial of Dr. Jameson and his officers in England on July 28th.
