Author: Phillips, Lionel. (Ed. Maryna Fraser).
Title: Some Reminiscences. Lionel Phillips.
Description: Donker. Johannesburg 1986 1st edition thus. Green cloth boards. 227pp illustrated 8vo. 0.9kg. No inscription, 4 square corners. VG in G+ dustwrapper (faded around spine, chipped, closed tears to rear). a clean copy. ISBN: 0868520942 Phillips was President of the Chamber of Mines from 1892 to 1896. After the Jameson Raid he was sentenced to death but the sentence was commuted. He was at the centre of the mining industry in SA and a member of the Union House of Assembly. His original "Some Reminiscences" was published in 1924. This edited version corrects errors, supplies chapter & biographical notes but omits the original long historical introduction.

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