Précis of Information Concerning the Uganda Protectorate. Compiled in the Intelligence Division, War Office. September, 1902.

Published by London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1903

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First edition, the first official British handbook devoted entirely to Uganda following the founding of the protectorate in 1894. The compiler of this typically thorough publication was a staff captain in the Intelligence Division, having served in Uganda from 1897 to 1898. He was subsequently head of mobilization in the First World War and attained the rank of major-general. While the title page is dated 1902, the 500 copies of this edition were printed in March 1903. The tipped-in corrigendum was issued in July 1903 in a run of 550 copies. Provenance: Humphrey Winterton, the major travel collector, with his book label on the inside of the custom box. This was number 324 in Maggs Catalogue 1343, From the Abyssinian Expedition to the Mau Mau Insurrection: The African Library of Humphrey Winterton (2003). Octavo. With 6 folding maps in end pocket, tables in text, tipped-in corrigendum. Original boards, blue cloth backstrip, front cover lettered in black. Housed in black quarter morocco custom box. Ex-Church Missionary Society, with its pressmark and cancelled ink stamps on the front pastedown, stamp in margin of one map, and white manuscript lettering on spine. Boards browned, inner hinges tender, creasing and light foxing to maps, a couple of black ink marks on verso of one sheet: very good.…

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Title
Précis of Information Concerning the Uganda Protectorate. Compiled in the Intelligence Division, War Office. September, 1902.
Author
WOODWARD, Edward Mabbott (comp.).
Publisher
London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1903
Edition
1st Edition

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