Aspects of the Life and Times of British Society in and around Cape Town
De luxe edition: 236 pages, colour frontispiece, colour map, 2 plans, 124 colour and black and white illustrations, top edge gilt, half maroon morocco with matching marbled boards, black title label gilt on the spine, a fine copy housed in a matching cloth covered slip case with marbled edges and leather lips.
This edition is limited to one thousand copies. 125 copies bound in half leather numbered 1 to 125.
This copy is number 61.
Editor’s note: The occupation of the Cape by the British in 1806 proved one of the great watersheds in the history of the colony and indeed of the embryonic nation itself. It was thereby incorporated for a century and half into the greatest empire the world had yet known, the legacy of which is felt - more widely than is perhaps generally acknowledged - even today. The majority of the illustrations appearing in this book have been drawn from the splendid Brenthurst collection of Africana, and they record, before the days of the camera, the Cape as it appeared during the years 1806 to 1872. The text imparts a flavour of the social life at the new order which, by precedent, convention and imitation, was to change the outlook and habits of the population for ever.
The Brenthurst Press, second series no.10
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