Zulu-English Dictionary

(Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press, 1949). 4to; original dark blue cloth, lettered in gilt on spine; pp. xxvi + 903. Bottom edges slightly shelf-rubbed; occasional fox spot; earlier owner's name signed on front free endpaper. Very good condition. (Doke Collection, p. 84; Murphy & Goff, 1097) "The compilers based their initial work upon A. T. Bryant's 1905 Zulu-English Dictionary, with the ready consent of the author, who wrote in 1937 that 'such a Zulu Dictionary as you forecast had sometime to come, and that time has come'. The need for a new Zulu dictionary was urgent. Both Bryant's outstanding work and the late R. C. Samuelson's King Cetywayo Zulu Dictionary were out of print; only Colenso's work, very sound but now out of date and inadequate in scope for the present requirements of the study of the language, was still procurable. Bryant's work, together with the standard set by Colenso, provided the type of Zulu chosen as fundamental, while the compilers felt it advisable to widen the scope somewhat to include contributions from other areas of Natal and Zululand." .