PHILLIPS, Mrs. Lionel. Some South African Recollections … Sixth Impression. London: Longmans, Green and Co. 1900.
8vo. Original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt; pp. x, 183, 32 (publisher's catalogue); plates after photographs; a little wear to binding, offsetting to fly-leaves, otherwise very good.
Presentation copy, inscribed by the author to Charles N. French on front fly-leaf. The wife of Sir Lionel Phillips, mining magnate, Randlord, art collector and politician in South Africa recounts her side to the meteoric rise of her husband and his involvement in Anglo-Boer controversies and trade union activism.
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