The Kafirs Illustrated
Cape Town, A.A. Balkema, 1974 ('A facsimile reprint of the original 1849 edition of hand-coloured lithographs')/ 1849.
Imperial folio, [xiv], 133 pages with a few illustrations new to this edition, and the pictorial content of the original edition: a portrait of Angas, 11 in-text illustrations and 30 pages of tipped-in colour plates (the 30 plates in the original are here presented as 25 full-page plates, and 5 pages each containing 2 smaller plates).
Gilt-decorated synthetic cloth lettered on the spine and front cover; covers lightly marked and scuffed, and slightly rubbed and bumped at the extremities; half-title lightly foxed; an excellent copy.
The four-page introduction by Frank R. Bradlow is new to this edition; number 221 of 950 copies (with the first 100 copies signed by Bradlow).
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