Book Description

First edition. 8vo. pp. viii, [i, contents], 264; mounted photographic frontis. portrait; previous owners’ inscriptions to frontis. recto and to title-page, light stain to upper outer margin of frontis., hinges a little weak, else very good in original decorative cloth, gilt, very slight wear to extrems.
Dealer Notes
Mendelssohn II.610; Theal p. 332. Annie Wilkinson (1844-78) married Edward Wilkinson, who became the inaugural Bishop of Zululand. In 1870, the Wilkinsons' missionary group departed Falmouth in England for Zululand via Natal. “The volume affords considerable information respecting social and political life among the colonists and natives of Natal and Zululand at this period, and includes a few details regarding the author’s travelling experiences in the Transvall . . . she does not speak well of Cetywayo” (Mendelssohn).
Author Wilkinson, Annie Margaret.
Date 1882
Binding Original cloth, gilt
Publisher London: J. T. Hayes
Condition See description
Pages viii, [i, contents], 264

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