BRITAIN AT THE CAPE 1795 - 1803

De luxe edition, limited to 125 sets of 10 volumes, this is number 2,  Brenthurst Press, second series, half leather with red leather spine, corners and red, white and green marble papers, with matching slipcase, the binding by Peter Carstens, 71 plates, 263 pages.

The period of Cape history known as the 'first British occupation' ranks amongst the most colourful in south Africa's past. In the eight years from 1795 to 1803, the colony at the cape experienced three different regimes, pitched battle and conquest, burgher revolt and frontier war, naval mutiny and khoikhoi rebellion. These troubled times also produced an extraordinary crop of memorable people: Lord Macartney and General Francis Dundas, Lady Anne Barnard and John Barrow, Sir George Yonge and W.S. van Rijneveld, Landdrost Maynier, Ngqika, and many more (from the preface).