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Millais, John Guille, Frontis By Sir J. E. Millais

A Breath from the Veldt

1895

351,56 €

Horizon Books

(Toronto, Canada)

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Détails

Année
1895
Lieu d'édition
London. Henry Sotheran and Co.
Auteur
Millais, John Guille, Frontis By Sir J. E. Millais
Edition
First edition.
Thème
Travel - Africa Art hunting
Langues
Anglais
Premiére Edition
Oui

Description

folio [40 x 31 cm]; x, 236 pp, 13 fine etched plates including frontis, other plates from drwgs, numerous other illus, the half-title page is present, title page vignette. original half brown leather, gilt title lettering on front cover and spine, gilt spine decoration, lower 2 inches of spine damaged and worn, effecting the inside lower corners of pages, moderate foxing on plates, else clean. A picture of this book is avai The signature of R. T. Coryndon on the front endpaper. Sir Robert Thorne Coryndon was Governor of Uganda and subsequently of Kenya. There was a later edition in 1899. Mendelssohn II, 13: 'The first edition was published in 1895 and soon became very rare. . .Never before or elsewhere, have the winged and furred creatures of the wild lived in their lithe beauty and fantastic grace as in these delicate drawings. . . . the frontispiece, contributed by Sir J. E. Millais, the Last Trek, is perhaps the most beautiful illustration connected with South Africa art.'
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