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 (together with Florence) and politician in South Africa recounts her side to the meteoric rise if her husband and his involvement in Anglo-Boer controversies and trade union activism.
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