SKETCHES REPRESENTING THE NATIVE TRIBES, ANIMALS, AND SCENERY OF SOUTHERN AFRICA.

From drawings made by the late Mr. Samuel Daniell, engraved by William Daniell.

48 soft-ground etchings, 48 leaves of text, with the dedication to Leopold of Saxe Coburg, recent half brown calf with gilt titling on the spine, marbled boards, signature of a previous owner at the top of the title page, a very good copy.

Sutton Thomas) The Daniells Artists and Travellers,  pages 154-5.
Abbey (J.R.) Travel in Aquatint and Lithography 1770-1860,  number 326, 'The circumstances in which Samuel Daniell obtained the drawings from which these plates were made are briefly discussed in the Notes to Samuel Daniell's African Scenery and Animals, 1804-5. Samuel Daniell died in Ceylon in 1811. Of the choice of soft-ground etching for the reproduction of his brother's drawings William says, "He has merely to add with respect to the engravings, that he has endeavoured to transfuse into them the spirit of the originals by a process which appeared to him best calculated for the attainment of that object." It is a most beautiful and sensitive work. One can well believe that William had not intruded himself but has indeed kept "the spirit of the originals."' Daniell's sketches are now highly regarded as an early and sympathetic record of African life.