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PORTRAITS OF THE GAME AND WILD ANIMALS OF SOUTHERN AFRICA (Limited Edition Facsimile Reprint) by Captain William Cornwallis-Harris
Mazoe: Frank Read Press, 1976
Atlas Fo, xxx + vi + 175pp. Original quarter leather hardcover binding, with gilt lettering to spine. Publisher’s device inlaid (without gilt) on front board. With an introduction by Frank R. Bradlow. Full colour frontispiece and 29 plates, collated and complete. With various fine black and white illustrations, and reproduction of a map of the North East of the Cape Colony. Loosely inserted announcement slip from the publisher announcing the publication of this book and one other.
Limited edition subscriber’s copy, no. 226 of 550. Signed by the publisher. Facsimile reprint of the 1840 first edition.
Major Sir William Cornwallis Harris (1807-1848) was an English military engineer, artist and hunter. In June 1836, Harris arrived at Cape Town. Harris was one of the more notable of the early Victorian travellers, and his illustrations of the large African fauna were the first to have any claim to accuracy. He hunted on a ruthless scale, even as he wrote with passion about the regions he crossed, and painted the animals he encountered with great attention to detail. He was not an outstanding artist, but his paintings and sketches have great charm and spirit and have considerably enriched natural history art.
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