223 pages, colour frontispiece, colour illustrations throughout, original purple cloth titled gilt on the spine, a very good copy in the dust jacket now preserved in a Brodart protector.
‘The weekly magazine Vanity Fair was published in London from 1868 to 1914….from early 1869 each issue carried a caricature of a notable person of the day, lithographed in full colour; through the years these reproductions have become collector’s items….In this book a selection of over eighty caricatures is presented, of characters who were all connected either directly or indirectly with events in what was a turbulent era in southern Africa.’ Editor’s note.
Brenthurst Press, Second Series, Volume 8, an edition is limited to one thousand copies. 850 copies bound in cloth.
- Overall Condition: A Very Good Copy
- Sold By: Clarke's Africana & Rare Books
- Contact Person: Paul Mills
- Country: South Africa
- Email: [email protected]
- Telephone: 021 794 0600
- Preferred Payment Methods: Visa & Mastercard via PayGate secure links and Bank transfers.
- Trade Associations: ABA - ILAB, SABDA
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