CAPE VIEWS AND COSTUMES

Third book Brenthurst first series. Limited to 850 copies

134pp. Original red-brown boards, with gilt lettering to spine. A little wear to dust jacket, white flecks showing through. Clean throughout. Small booksellers sticker on fep.

The book includes 23 water-colours which De Meillon painted of the buildings of Cape Town and  64 costume plates of the city's inhabitants.

De Meillon's People of Colour, by Robert C.H. Shell is included: it is a bound, slim booklet on their dress and occupations with special reference to Cape Views and Costumes.

De Meillon came to South Africa as a Second Lieutenant of the Royal Navy. He was later invalided out of the Navy in Simon's Town after contracting malaria.