First edition: 468 pages, colour frontispiece, 49 plates - 8 partly coloured, pictorial green cloth titled gilt on the upper cover and spine, the bottom edge of the spine is frayed, top edge gilt, foxing throughout and on the page edges, corners slightly bumped.
'Wilhelm Heinrich Immanuel Bleek (8 March 1827 – 17 August 1875) was a German linguist. His work included A Comparative Grammar of South African Languages and his great project jointly executed with Lucy Lloyd: The Bleek and Lloyd Archive of ǀxam and !kun texts. A short form of this eventually reached press with Specimens of Bushman Folklore, which Laurens van der Post drew on heavily.' (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Bleek)
'Lucy Catherine Lloyd (7 November 1834 – 31 August 1914) was the creator, along with Wilhelm Bleek, of the 19th-century archive of ǀXam and !Kung texts. Lucy's sister, Jemima, married Wilhelm Bleek on 22 November 1862 In the same year as his marriage, Bleek was appointed curator of the Grey Collection at the South African Library in Cape Town. Lucy also played an important role in the founding of the SA Folklore Society, for which she acted as secretary for a while, and in the founding of the Folklore Journal in 1879. Lucy was appointed curator of the Grey Collection as successor to Bleek after his death in 1875. During this time she worked with the Grey Collection and at editing various manuscripts collected by Bleek, as well as continuing with her |Xam research in her own time.
'She submitted a third report to the Cape Government concerning 'Bushman Researches', dated London 8 May 1889, in which she added 4,534 half-pages or columns to the collection. In 1911 a selection of texts from Bleek and Lloyd's extraordinary project – and a considerable achievement given Lloyd's personal circumstances at the time – was edited by her and published as Specimens of Bushman Folklore.' (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_Lloyd)
- Size: 8vo (220 x150mm)
