First edition, first impression. Signed and inscribed to John and Millie Ashworth by the editor on the (otherwise blank) dedication page. Monochrome plate frontispiece and maps on endpapers. Black faux leather boards with gilt-stamped titles on the spine. 8vo. Volume is neat. clean, bright and tight throughout.
Reginald Herbert Lindsey-Renton was born in 1887 and educated at Winchester College and New College, Oxford. He was called to the Bar in 1911 and served in the Territorial Army. After the Great War in joining the London import-export Company Dreyfus & Co, who had a number of branches around the world. In 1920 he made his first journey to South Africa to gain insight into the business. His diaries published here cover the period January to October 1920, as he travelled around South Africa, particularly the Eastern Cape, visiting and recording his experiences and impressions of Port Elizabeth, the Orange Free State, Johannesburg, and other places such as Bulawayo and Victoria Falls.
