Author: Bell, W.H. Somerset.
Title: Bygone Days. Being the Reminiscences of Pioneer Life in the Cape Colony and the Transvaal, with Some Account of the Jameson Raid and Its Consequences.
Description: H.F. & G. Witherby, London 1st Edition 1933. Blue gilt boards, 367pp. 8vo 0.7kg. Various ownership signatures. stamps, & dates. ffep excised. a Good clean copy in Poor dustwrapper (50% loss to repaired spine, covered protective film. has kept book clean). Personal reminiscences from author's arrival at Port Elizabeth in 1869 until after the Anglo-Boer war. Deals with such issues as railway development in the Cape Colony, the Uitlander grievances, the Johannesburg plot and the Jameson Raid, the Reform Committee, the Anglo-Boer war proper, Louis Botha, and the system of concessions and monopolies granted by the Transvaal government prior to the Anglo-Boer war.

Keywords: africa african south southern cape colony jameson raid