First edition. Photogravure group portrait frontispiece and fifteen other plates and full-page illustrations, numerous illustrations to the text, one folding map coloured in outline, and a folding plan. 8vo. Publisher’s royal blue gilt cloth. Covers with minor signs of edge wear. Bookplate to upper pastedown. xii, 363pp. London, Edward Arnold, 1898.
In the aftermath of the Italian defeat at Adowa the European Powers rushed to establish advantageous treaty arrangements with the newly confident Ethiopians. Having been on Special Service in Sudan, Gleichen was attached to Rennell Rodd’s mission to the Emperor.
