Various — The Jameson Raid a Centennial Retrospective

Johannesburg, The Brenthurst Press, 1996. First edition. Cloth. An exceptional copy of this uncommon first limited edition copy of this fascinating study of the Jameson Raid, in a lovely cloth binding with the original unclipped dustwrapper. The Jameson Raid was a botched raid that took place between 29 December 1895 and 2 January 1896. The raid was planned against the South African Republic by the British colonial statesman Leander Starr Jameson and his Company troops. The raid was intended to trigger an uprising by the primarily British expatriate workers in the Transvaal but failed to do so, but, however, was an inciting factor in the Second Boer War and the Second Matabele War. The first book in The Brenthurst Press Third Series. This edition is limited to one thousand and twenty-five copies made-up as follows: 25 copies bound in full leather numbered A to Y (not for sale) 150 de luxe copies bound in half leather numbered 1 to 150 850 standard copies bound in cloth. This copy is an unnumbered copy of the 850 standard copies bound in cloth. Copiously illustrated throughout with one hundred and eighty four illustrations, many of which are in colour. In the publisher's original cloth binding with original unclipped dustwrapper. Externally, lovely. Dustwrapper, lovely with only very minor shelf wear to extremities. Internally firmly bound. Pages very bright and clean throughout. As New . Ill.: Various. As New/Fine.