William Bennington Boyce (1 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. A near fine copy, in a near fine unclipped dust jacket of Volume XXXIX of Struik's Africana Collectanea series. This is copy #802 of 1,000 issued. The maroon cloth binding is clean and unworn, with strong gilt lettering to the spine and blind stamping and a gilt decoration to the front board. Everything is sound and tight, with square unbumped corners. The contents are clean and bright with no ownership inscriptions or other markings of any kind. The dust jacket is unclipped (no flap price), and shows only the most trivial of edgewear. It is now protected in a removable mylar cover. From the blurb: "William Bennington Boyce was the trusted adviser of Sir Benjamin d'Urban during the Sixth Kaffir War, 1834-1835. However, the part played by Wesleyan missionaries during that war brought them into disfavour in England, and Boyce himself was strongly criticised. This led him to set out his opinions unequivocally in his 'Notes on South African Affairs'".