OTTO LANDSBERG 1803-1905 (De Luxe edition signed by the author)

De Luxe Edition: 120 pages, frontispiece portrait, profusely illustrated with colour and black and white plates, full green leather binding, titled gilt on the spine, light foxing on the endpapers and page edges, a very good copy in publisher's white card wrapper.

Limitations page reads: De Luxe edition limited to one-hundred copies this is copy no. 2. Signed by the author.

From the Preface by Hans Fransen: In his standard work on early South African art published in 1952, A. Gordon-Brown in his entry on Otto Landsberg could only include a few biographical data on this well-known 19th century public figure. Of Landsberg’s artistic work, however, he had to admit that no works had been traced in South African collections. Then, in 1956 the Potchefstroom Museum acquired by bequest a considerable number of Landsberg’s works. This was followed in 1974 when the South African National Gallery purchased four carefully selected topographical water-colours as being representative of his best work. The appearance of this book by Simon de Villiers finally completes the recognition which Landsberg’s work, unknown barely twenty years ago, deserves amidst the handful of merit-worthy artists of his time.