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WILMOT, Alexander.
History of the Zulu War.
Publisher: London & Cape of Good Hope, Richardson and Best, London and A. White and Co., "South African Mail" Office, 1880
Stock code: 39111
Price: £575 Currency Conversion
First Edition. Wilmot was born in Scotland and studied law at Edinburgh and Glasgow. He emigrated to the Cape in 1853 at the age of seventeen and entered the Civil Service, retiring in 1886 as Civil Commissioner. He did much work for the Catholic Church in South Africa for which he was made a Papal Count. Wilmot "appears to have been fully convinced that war in Zululand was inevitable, and he asserts that 'Cetywayo for two years had been arranging for a great special blow on the white people. He was crouching ready to spring and the High Commissioner knew it was necessary to act at once" (Mendelssohn).
Octavo. Original blue embossed cloth, title and portrait of Cetewayo gilt to the spine. Mounted photographic portrait frontispiece of the Prince Imperial, folding map. Slight foxing and browning, externally a little rubbed, spine mottled and with a small nick to the upper joint.
