"Written August 1896. Privately circulated June 1899. Supplemented and published September 1899. Second, third and fourth impressions October 10, 16 and 23, 1899."
This copy is from the fourth impression.
From the author's preface: " . . . Everybody else had been heard and judged, the Uitlander had only been judged." [He was writing about the Jameson Raid.] "It therefore seemed proper that someone should attempt to present the case for the Uitlander. The writer, as a South African by birth, as a resident in the Transvaal since 1884, and lastly as Secretary of the Reform Committee, felt impelled to do this, but suffered under the disability of President Kruger's three years' ban [of banishment] . . . "
The contents are divided into a longer part - A Private Record - and a shorter part - A Postscript.
Some of the chapters are The Reform Committee, The Committee's Dilemma, The Invasion, Arrest and Trial of the Reformers, Life in Gaol, and Three Years' Grace.
The appendixes include the Pretoria and London Conventions, the Great Franchise Debate, Terms of Dr Jameson's Surrender, and Manifesto.
For a balanced view of the events leading up to the Anglo-Boer War of 1899-1902, Fitzpatrick's book is required reading. For this purpose, this copy will suffice - and it still looks well on the bookshelf.
Blue cloth-boards, gilt-on-brown title-label to the spine, plain eggshell endpapers, [ii] pp of press opinions on the first edition + xvi + 452 pp of text, 11 appendixes and index.
CONDITION. There is a damp-stain at the upper corner of the upper board which becomes less obtrusive towards the foot. The boards are lightly rubbed at the corners and at the foot of the spine. There is a small unclosed tear at the head of the spine and an 8 x 6 mm loss of material from the spine label. The front free endpaper is damp-stained and the back endpaper is sunned. The first and last pages (opposite the free endpapers) are sunned. The binding is tight and there are no binding cracks. The contents are complete and unmarked except for a 4 x 20 mm transparent stain on p 9 and two smaller stains on later pages.
- Binding Condition: Good
- Overall Condition: Good +
- Size: 220 x 140
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