The Northern Goldfields Diaries of Thomas Baines. First Journey 1869-1870. First Journey 1870-1871. Second Journey 1871-1872. by Baines, Thomas (Wallis, J. P. R. ed) - 1946

Presentation Edition, limited to fifty copies of which this is Number 46. Printed for the Government of Southern Rhodesia at the University Press, Glasgow. Chatto & Windus. London. 1946. 3 volumes. 4to. xxxviii, 277pp. 4 colour plates, 5 half-tone plates, 2 folding maps; viii, -598pp. 3 colour plates, 12 half tone plates, folding map; viii, -855pp. 8 half tone plates, 2 maps (one folding). Original blue leather, gilt to spines and to board armorial vignettes. Slightly faded to spines, bumped and rubbed. Top edges gilt. Edges untrimmed.

Provenance: Bookplates of Sir Campbell Stuart G.C.M.G K.B.E to ffeps.

Sir Campbell Stuart (1885-1972) 'His tall, lean figure and eager, expressive face, quick to break into smiles, were familiar in Embassies and drawing-rooms in Mayfair and in Montreal, Cape Town and other centres of the old Empire' (The Times, 15 Sept 1972). At dinner parties at his seventeenth-century Highgate house, The Grove, he brought together leading figures from the worlds of journalism, diplomacy, and business. He undoubtedly did things in style. ODNB.