History of the Zulu War and its Origin.

By... Assisted in those Portions of the Work which touch upon Military Matters by... Folding coloured map at the rear. Short closed tear to the title page, some minor splits to the folds of the map, which has been neatly reattached with a new stub and has some foxing verso, as often, but overall a very good copy in the original brown cloth, just a little rubbed at the extremities. viii, 492pp. 24pp. publisher's catalogue. Chapman and Hall,

Mendelssohn I, pp.355-6; "This work severely criticises the general policy of Sir Bartle Frere towards Zululand and its king, and it is maintained that the idea of the subjugation of the Zulus had occupied the minds of certain British statesmen since the year 1873, while it was well known that a war would be popular in Natal."

This copy with bookplate recording its presentation to the Library of the Scottish Conservative Club in 1890 by Sir G[raham] Graham Montgomery, Lord Lieutentant of Kinross-shire.

Stock Code: 88575