THE LIFE AND WORK OF CHARLES BELL (The Publisher's copy)

Including The Art of Charles Bell: An Appraisal, by Michael Godby

Collectors’ edition. 176 pages, colour frontispiece portrait, illustrated throughout in colour with paintings, sketches and plans by Bell, half maroon leather with grey cloth boards, gilt vignette on the upper cover, titled gilt on the spine, housed in a matching cloth slipcase with leather lips, decorated with a plate sunk illustration, a fine copy.

The limitations page reads: Collectors' Edition. A special edition limited to 100 copies. This volume 1 is presented to Fernwood Press (Pty) Ltd signed by the author.

There is a tipped in colour plate numbered 1/100 on the end paper before the half title page.

Editor's note: 'Bell, born in Scotland in 1813, arrived at the Cape aged sixteen and remained in the Colony for almost five decades, during which he contributed significantly to its aesthetic, social and business life. Gifted artist, wood carver, engraver, sculptor, expert in designing brass and silverware, philatelist, authority on heraldry, land surveyor, traveller, geologist, archaeologist and director of companies - the list of his interests and accomplishments seems endless and his output was considerable. Yet for over a century after his death Charles Bell was little known.'