Jock of the bushveld
Sir James Percy Fitzpatrick (1862-1931)
Category
Books
Date
1907
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Owletts, Kent
NT 3147727
Summary
Bibliographic description
xv, [1], 474, [2] p., frontis. plate (col.), [22] plates . ill.., plates, figrs . 21cm.. First impression. Provenance: Herbert Baker's small ex libris label. - Floral bookplate of Henry & Helen Baker Owletts. - Inscribed in ink on half-title: 'To / Henry Baker / with the profound respects / of the author / Percy Fitzpatrick / 10 Dec. 1907'. Binding: Publisher's blue cloth. - Attached to half-title newspaper cutting from The Times dated in ink: 'Nov. 18th / 1930' and dated from Pretoria referring to the fact that it was apparently at Fitzpatrick's initiative that the 'Two Minutes Silence' was adopted for Armistice Day remembrance. - Boards detached.
Makers and roles
Sir James Percy Fitzpatrick (1862-1931) Edmund G. Caldwell (Canterbury 1852 - 1930)