Taylor, J[ames] B.
A Pioneer Looks Back
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Seller ID: 2539S London: Hutchinson, 1939. First edition (pp. 248, index). J. B. Taylor’s copy with his bookplate “James B. Taylor/ Lyne Grove” (Surrey), also with the signature of “S. F. Silberbauer” on the ffep. Large octavo (24 cm) in brown publisher’s cloth, gilt titles; with frontispiece and twenty-five illustrations from photographs or drawings. J. B. Taylor was a “pioneer” who had a hand in the development of the South African diamond and gold resources in the last twenty years of the nineteenth century, notably at Kimberley, and was a familiar of Rhodes, Beit, and other imperial industrialists. Taylor may well have owned more than one copy of his book (as some writer’s do) and this copy may have been a present to Silberbauer. In any event it was last sold in the latter part of 1952 at Port Elizabeth by the Frankels, long-established antiquarian dealers in Africana. Covers a bit sun-faded, first and last few pages with a bit of light foxing; otherwise tight and clean. Price: $550.00
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