1900 London to Ladysmith via Pretoria

Description

Colour Plates, First Edition, Folding Maps, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding, Rebound

The first edition of this work.

Half-title is present.

Illustrated with a colour folding map to the frontispiece, two folding maps, one map, and four plans.

Collated, complete.

Thirty-two pages of publisher's adverts to the rear.

Rebacked with the original boards and spine restored.

'London to Ladysmith via Pretoria' recounts Churchill's impressions during the first five months of the Second Boer War, a personal record of his time.

This work include Churchill's account of the Relief of Ladysmith, as well as his capture and escape from the Boers, a dramatic event.