Thomas Pakenham · Introduced by Saul David · The Folio Society, London, 2011 · Two Volumes in Slipcase
Thomas Pakenham's The Scramble for Africa is a landmark narrative history of the European partition and conquest of Africa between 1876 and 1912, from Leopold II's Brussels conference to the eve of the First World War. First published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson in 1991, it remains one of the most widely read accounts of the period.
This is the Folio Society edition of 2011, with a new introduction by the historian Saul David. The text follows the 2008 Abacus edition with minor emendations. Each volume opens with a colour frontispiece: a gilt-framed portrait of Leopold II, presented by the king to guests at his 1876 Brussels conference, in Volume I, and a period poster of Queen Victoria presiding over South Africa, flanked by Joseph Chamberlain and Lord Roberts, in Volume II. The volumes are typeset in Bulmer, printed at MedienCentrum, Memmingen, and three-quarter bound in buckram by Lachenmaier of Reutlingen, with printed paper sides reproducing period photographs of ivory traders at Zanzibar and British soldiers during the Boer War.
Both volumes Near Fine, with clean, bright boards, tight bindings and clean pages. The slipcase is Very Good: solid, with some rubbing.
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