First edition: viii (list of subscribers) +144 pages, frontispiece, folding map, title page vignette, 9 engraved plates and vignettes - 2 plates are heavily foxed, original blind stamped blue cloth titled and decorated gilt on the spine worn and frayed, a fair copy only but with the presentation inscription on the front free endpaper, 'To Colonel John Maclean, Chief Commissioner of Kaffraria, with the kind regards of the Author. King Wllm. Town, July 1853.'
Inscribed at the top of the title page, 'J.H Bowker, Malvern Natal, April 9, 1894'. Also tipped onto the front free endpaper is a note by Bowker in which he describes how he rediscovered this copy in bookseller's list.
Mendelssohn (Sidney) South African Bibliography, volume 1, page 551: ‘Fleming was Chaplain to the British forces in King William's Town. His book also contains extensive descriptions of the '....personal appearance, language, customs, and the origin of the natives who are described as "fine, noble, manly fellows, as bold as lions and as daring as eagles,"'
