MY AFRICAN HOME. [Ltd.,No'd facsimile edition.771/1000.]

SOUTH AFRICA,DURBAN,12mo HB minus dw/dj,Ltd,No'd, facsimile,1st edn thus.[Facsimile of Sampson,Low,Marston, Searle & Rivington,1887 edition,published 30 years after her experiences,and her return to England.Limited No. 771/1000.] FINE+.No owner inscrptn,but a blank,unused,brown+white illustrated Ex Libris bookplate by John Sutcliffe (who was once the curator of the National Trust,and then a decorative painter)
pasted to front free endpaper.Remarkably bright,crisp and clean - despite the absence of its dw/dj and the progress of 48 years on - virtually pristine,sharp-cornered,publisher's original dark green cloth boards with bright.crisp,gilt blocked letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers,the bookplate excepted.Negligible shelf-wear to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits,but both the head+foot of spine are gently pushed/bumped.Top edges with very minimal and very faint,sporadical spotting,fore-edges even less blemished; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - also virtually pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners, appears unread,apart from my own collation.12mo HB minus dw/dj,Ltd.,No'd,facsimile,1st edn thus,2-364pp [paginated] includes XXXV (35) chapters,9 b/w illustrations - includes frntis - interspersed throughout the text; plus [unpaginated] Limitation page to reverse of front free endpaper,half-title with publisher's acknowledgements on reverse,b/w illustrated frntis,title page,dedication,author's 1886 preface with illustrations list to reverse,and 2pp blanks at the rear.
Mrs. Feilden and her husband went to South Africa in a sailing ship,and soon after their arrival at Port Natal they established themselves at their farm,'Feniscowles,' near Durban,where all the hardships and troubles of pioneer life seem to have befallen them.The Feildens appear to have kept an open house,and the writer comments on the free and easy manner of their self-invited guests There were,however,plenty of guests of a very different stamp,among the names mentioned being many of the old pioneers of Natal - Bishop Colenso,the Fynns, William Baldwin,the celebrated hunter and author,and many others,who enjoyed the rough and ready hospitality of Feniscowles.
Of Bishop Colenso the author observes that she considered him 'an earnest good man,' but 'despotic'; reference is made to the Bishop's labours,and it is stated that Mr. Fynn,the old pioneer,asserted that the missionaries never got a real convert from the Zulus.
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