THE RELIEF OF LADYSMITH

xi + 316 + 40pp publisher's catalogue, frontispiece and 15 plates and maps.

Original red cloth, lettered in gilt on spine and front. Pictorial cover.

Corners and spine ends bumped with light fraying of cloth to corners. Cracking to gutter but holding solidly. Light foxing ,and browning to endpapers. Internally a few marks but mostly clean. Rough cut pages at bottom edge.

'A reproduction of letters published in the Manchester Guardian, together with an Introduction giving a concise account of the early stages of the campaign in Natal, and many plans and illustrations. There are detailed descriptions, including the battles of Willow Grange, Colenso, Railway Hill, Pieter's Hill, and of the successive attempts to relieve the beleaguered town. The writer was evidently a great admirer of General Buller, and remarks that "he gained laurels from his defeat that are not always won by victorious generals. He sacrificed, or let me say rather, he jeopardised, his own reputation in order to avert an irreparable sacrifice of his army."' Mendelssohn