Wild Flowers of the Transvaal (1962)

This is copy No 453 of the subscribers' edition limited to six hundred copies and signed by the artist and the chairman of the trustees. A loosely inserted compliments slip confirms the number of the copy. 

Half-bound in dark-green goatskin with mid-green buckram sides, with gilt decoration to the upper board and gilt decoration and lettering to the spine. Black painting on green printed endpapers. Half-title with signatures and special edition details. "Spring Bouquet" (1911) frontispiece painting by Cythna Letty's mother, Josina Christina Lindenberg Letty. Title page, including "Cythna Letty (Cythna Lindenberg Forssman". xiv + 362 pp of b/w-illustrated text and 2 indexes, with 176 colour illustrations printed with the text on heavy matt art paper.

CONDITION. The spine is sunned to a sand-brown but the lettering remains clear. The joins between the leather and the buckram probably show more white than when they were new. And there is a small tape mark and another small mark on the front free endpaper. There are no ownership or other marks. The book itself - with its rounded binding - is a joy to handle, to open. to look at and to read, and the pages remain crisp, bright and undiscoloured, making this a highly collectible, almost as-new, copy.