PORTRAITS OF THE GAME AND WILD ANIMALS OF SOUTHERN AFRICA, (From the Library of Lt. Gen. Peter Walls)

Harris (W. Cornwallis)

Description:

16 page introduction by Frank Bradlow, colour title page, map, 30 fine colour plates, bound in quarter brown Rhodesian buffalo leather titled and decorated gilt on the back, light green cloth sides - rubbed along the edges and lightly soiled, contents and plates are bright.

The best of the reprints of Harris's fine folio volume. The plates are reproduced to the actual size of the original and the text is reproduced in full together with all the chapter tailpieces. Frank Read founded his own private press in Mazoe in the 1960's and the production of the 'Portraits of the Game' required that a new hand-fed flatbed lithographic press be specially built. This type of press was selected so that the colour printing technique would approximate as closely as possible to the methods used in the original printing of 1840.

No. 531 of the facsimile reprint edition limited to 540 copies.

Details:

  • Publisher: Frank Read Press
  • Publisher Place: Mazoe, Rhodesia
  • Date of Publication: 1976
  • Edition: Facsimile reprint
  • Binding Condition: Good
  • Overall Condition: Good
  • Size: Imperial folio (595 x 430 mm)
  • Lot No: 195
  • Hammer Price: $1208
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