VIEWS OF SOUTH AFRICA.

Unpaginated, 46 black and white plates, green cloth boards with pictorial gilt on the upper cover, a very good copy.

Extracted from SABIB vol 4 page 671: Printed at the bottom of the title page G. W. Wilson and Co., Albums containing this set of photographs were also published by other firms. These photographs were supplied by the firm G.W. Wilson and Co., Aberdeen Scotland. One copy of this volume is listed here.

Extracted from the Cape Argus 3 September 2015: George Washington Wilson (1823 - 1893) trained as a portrait miniaturist but he subsequently turned to photography and became Photographer Royal for Scotland in 1860. He employed competent men to run his portraiture business while he devoted himself to landscape photography in Britain and commissioned photographs from across the world.

At the time of his death, his firm G.W. Wilson and Co. was one of the largest of its kind in the world. George's son Charles, and senior staff photographer Fred Hardie toured South Africa twice, penetrating as far as modern Botswana and Zimbabwe. Their images were listed in an extensive catalogue published in 1901.