signed first edition Uniformly bound by the Cooperative Bookbinder’s • London in half red calf
1899 · Liverpool, UK
by William Rathbone (1819-1902)
RATHBONE, William (1819-1902). Speech on the Retrocession of the Transvaal in 1881, and on the Causes of the Present Difficulties in South Africa … On the Occasion of Unveiling of Bust of the Late Rt. Hon. William Ewart Gladstone, at the Liverpool Reform Club, on December 4th, 1899…. Together with a Memorandum of a Suggestion made in Conversation, in 1869, by the Right Hon. Sir Mountstuart Grant-Duff, as to the Best Means of Improving Official Sources of Information as to the Political Conditions and Military Resources of Foreign Nations. Liverpool: Liverpool Reform Club, 1899. Sammelband. 6 Volumes in 1. 7 7/8 x 6 1/4 inches. (20) pp.
WITH: MOLTENO, Percy A. (1861-1937). A Plain Statement of Facts. At Head of Title: The South African Crisis. No. 1. [London: The Times, July 10, 1899. Broadside. [1] page.
WITH: South Africa Conciliation Committee. "A Boer Parson on the War. Reprinted from the 'Echo.'" At head of title: No. 25, South Africa Conciliation Committee. Broadsheet. [2] pages.
WITH: MOLTENO, Percy A. (1861-1937). The South African Crisis. To the Editor of "The Times." [London: The Times, No year. Pamphlet, without covers. 7, [1 blank] pp.
WITH: SELOUS, Frederick Courteney (1851-1917). Letters Contributed to the "Times" by Mr. F. C. Selous, The Well Known Traveller and Sportsman (Reprinted by Special Permission the "The Times." [London: South Africa Conciliation Committee, 1899]. At Head of Title: The War in South Africa, No. 4. Pamphlet, without covers. 8 pp.
WITH: HOBSON, John Atkinson (1858-1940). How the Press was Worked Before the War. Reprinted by the kind permission of the Proprietors of "The Speaker" and Mr. Hobson. [London: South Africa Conciliation Committee, 1899]. At Head of Title: No. 14. Pamphlet without covers. 16 pp.
Uniformly bound by the Cooperative Bookbinder's • London in half red calf, marbled paper over boards, gilt-ruled covers, 4 raised bands, gilt titled spine, all edges gilt, lithographed marbled end-papers; binding square and tight. Bookplate of Samuel Ashton Thompson-Yates. Obituary of William Rathbone and a Typed Letter Signed from Rathbone to Thompson-Yates dated March 7th, 1901 mounted on fly-leaves supplied by the binder. FB1223-097. Very Good.
OFFPRINTS. The Second Boer War was a conflict between the British Empire and two Boer republics in South Africa which lasted between October 1899 and 1902. The war ended when the British wore down Boer resistance and offered the Transvaal and Orange Free State independent status within the British Empire. The material in this Sammelband represents the opinions of Englishmen opposed to the British war effort. William Rathbone VI was an English merchant and businessman noted for his philanthropic and public work. He was also a Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons representing several constituencies between 1868 and 1895. He became a partner in the family company Rathbone Brothers and Co., and remained a partner until 1885. He is said to have regarded wealth and business success chiefly as a means to the achievement of public and philanthropic work. In particular, Rathbone was instrumental in improving and expanding the availability of nursing for the poor throughout the United Kingdom. Rathbone was also closely involved in the formation of University College Liverpool (1882), which became the University of Liverpool, serving as president of the college in 1892. The letter mounted in this volume from Rathbone to Thompson-Yates speaks about the transition of University College Liverpool and its transformation into the University of Liverpool and Rathbone's inability to attend Thompson-Yates' speech to the Medical Students in 1899.
Percy Alport Molteno was an Edinburgh-born South African lawyer, company director, politician and philanthropist who sat in Parliament as a Liberal from 1906-1918. Molteno foresaw the coming Boer War in the early 1890s and denounced the politicians working for a change in the UK governments policies towards an African Empire. When the war broke out, Molteno was denounced as openly "Pro-Boer". He served as chairman of the South Africa Conciliation Committee. The South Africa Conciliation Committee was a British anti-war organization opposed to the Second Boer War. The committee was formed in 1899 in response to the outbreak of the war. Its publications are included in this sammelband.
Frederick Selous was a British explorer, officer, professional hunter, and conservationist, famous for exploits in Southeast Africa. Sir Henry Rider Haggard based the fictional character Allan Quatrain on Fred Selous.
John Atkinson Hobson was an English economist and social scientist. He is best known for his writings on imperialism, which influenced Vladimir Lenin. After covering the Second Boer War as a correspondent for The Manchester Guardian, Hobson condemned British involvement in the war and characterized it as acting under the influence of mine owners. This challenge helped form Hobson's view that imperialism was the direct result of the expanding forces of modern capitalism.
3 copies [Rathbone] OCLC. (Inventory #: FB1223-097)
WITH: MOLTENO, Percy A. (1861-1937). A Plain Statement of Facts. At Head of Title: The South African Crisis. No. 1. [London: The Times, July 10, 1899. Broadside. [1] page.
WITH: South Africa Conciliation Committee. "A Boer Parson on the War. Reprinted from the 'Echo.'" At head of title: No. 25, South Africa Conciliation Committee. Broadsheet. [2] pages.
WITH: MOLTENO, Percy A. (1861-1937). The South African Crisis. To the Editor of "The Times." [London: The Times, No year. Pamphlet, without covers. 7, [1 blank] pp.
WITH: SELOUS, Frederick Courteney (1851-1917). Letters Contributed to the "Times" by Mr. F. C. Selous, The Well Known Traveller and Sportsman (Reprinted by Special Permission the "The Times." [London: South Africa Conciliation Committee, 1899]. At Head of Title: The War in South Africa, No. 4. Pamphlet, without covers. 8 pp.
WITH: HOBSON, John Atkinson (1858-1940). How the Press was Worked Before the War. Reprinted by the kind permission of the Proprietors of "The Speaker" and Mr. Hobson. [London: South Africa Conciliation Committee, 1899]. At Head of Title: No. 14. Pamphlet without covers. 16 pp.
Uniformly bound by the Cooperative Bookbinder's • London in half red calf, marbled paper over boards, gilt-ruled covers, 4 raised bands, gilt titled spine, all edges gilt, lithographed marbled end-papers; binding square and tight. Bookplate of Samuel Ashton Thompson-Yates. Obituary of William Rathbone and a Typed Letter Signed from Rathbone to Thompson-Yates dated March 7th, 1901 mounted on fly-leaves supplied by the binder. FB1223-097. Very Good.
OFFPRINTS. The Second Boer War was a conflict between the British Empire and two Boer republics in South Africa which lasted between October 1899 and 1902. The war ended when the British wore down Boer resistance and offered the Transvaal and Orange Free State independent status within the British Empire. The material in this Sammelband represents the opinions of Englishmen opposed to the British war effort. William Rathbone VI was an English merchant and businessman noted for his philanthropic and public work. He was also a Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons representing several constituencies between 1868 and 1895. He became a partner in the family company Rathbone Brothers and Co., and remained a partner until 1885. He is said to have regarded wealth and business success chiefly as a means to the achievement of public and philanthropic work. In particular, Rathbone was instrumental in improving and expanding the availability of nursing for the poor throughout the United Kingdom. Rathbone was also closely involved in the formation of University College Liverpool (1882), which became the University of Liverpool, serving as president of the college in 1892. The letter mounted in this volume from Rathbone to Thompson-Yates speaks about the transition of University College Liverpool and its transformation into the University of Liverpool and Rathbone's inability to attend Thompson-Yates' speech to the Medical Students in 1899.
Percy Alport Molteno was an Edinburgh-born South African lawyer, company director, politician and philanthropist who sat in Parliament as a Liberal from 1906-1918. Molteno foresaw the coming Boer War in the early 1890s and denounced the politicians working for a change in the UK governments policies towards an African Empire. When the war broke out, Molteno was denounced as openly "Pro-Boer". He served as chairman of the South Africa Conciliation Committee. The South Africa Conciliation Committee was a British anti-war organization opposed to the Second Boer War. The committee was formed in 1899 in response to the outbreak of the war. Its publications are included in this sammelband.
Frederick Selous was a British explorer, officer, professional hunter, and conservationist, famous for exploits in Southeast Africa. Sir Henry Rider Haggard based the fictional character Allan Quatrain on Fred Selous.
John Atkinson Hobson was an English economist and social scientist. He is best known for his writings on imperialism, which influenced Vladimir Lenin. After covering the Second Boer War as a correspondent for The Manchester Guardian, Hobson condemned British involvement in the war and characterized it as acting under the influence of mine owners. This challenge helped form Hobson's view that imperialism was the direct result of the expanding forces of modern capitalism.
3 copies [Rathbone] OCLC. (Inventory #: FB1223-097)
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