1893 Letters From the Western Pacific and Mashonaland 1878-1891

Description

First Edition, Illustrated, Original Binding, Original Source, Pleasing Copy, Publishers' Original Binding

The first edition of the work.

With a frontispiece and sixteen further plates. Collated complete.

Edited by the author's brother, Samuel H. Romilly and with an introduction by Lord Stanmore.

Bookplate of Peter Dowding Prankerd to front paste down. Prankerd was an English businessman who made significant money in Colonial South Australian real estate.

This collection of Romilly's letters chronicles fourteen years of his experiences across colonial outposts, including Fiji, New Guinea and Rotuma, to the Mashonaland in Southern Africa. They offer a first-hand perspective on the colonial administration of the period and include descriptions of indigenous societies, as well as the changing politics of the various regions.