"specially bound in khaki, as worn by the British Troops on active service.”
First edition:5 volumes, 248 pages each volume, 12 maps, frontispiece portrait in each volume, 20 photogravure portraits, 20 tinted plates and many black & white text illustrations, all edges gilt, pictorial khaki cloth boards, titled gilt on the spines, a very good set.
Mendelssohn (Sidney) South African Bibliography vol.1 page199. 'The first volume deals with the Boers under Dutch rule, under British domination, the various treks, the twenty-five years of Transvaal Independence, the four years of British rule, the Boer War 1880-1, and the Transvaal since 1881. It is claimed that an honest effort has been made to show the points of incompatibility in the Boer and English characters, and "to trace rough Voortrekkers ... back to their humble beginnings ..." The other four volumes are devoted to an exhaustive account of the South African War, 1899-1902, down to the declaration of peace at Vereeniging. The work is elaborately illustrated, and contains a large number of full-page portraits.
Volume 5 has Brown (Harold) & Grew (E. Sharp) as the authors on the title page.
Loosely inserted in volume 1 are several newspaper clippings relating to the war.
An advertisement for the work at the end of the first volume states, 'To be completed in about four volumes, at 10s. 6d. each, specially bound in Khaki, as worn by the British Troops on active service.'
- Overall Condition: Very good
- Size: Large 8vo (260 x 190 mm)
