Author: Phillips, Lionel. (Ed. Maryna Fraser).
Title: Some Reminiscences. Lionel Phillips.
Description: Donker. Johannesburg 1986. revised and corrected edition of the original Hutchinson 1924 edition Green cloth boards. 227pp illustrated 8vo. 0.9kg. VG condition, no dustwrapper. ISBN: 9780868520940 Possible author's signature to title page, very shaky writing. 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 long historical introduction of the original.

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