Author:
FITZPATRICK Sir Percy
Title:
Jock of the Bushveld
Price:
£480.00
Year:
1907
Edition:
1st Edn,
Publisher:
Longman Green and Co
Summary:
XV 474 pages, coloured frontis and 22 b/w plates + drawings by Edmund Caldwell, the drawings are on each page in the margins and show scenes of life in the bush, wildlife etc., apart from some occasional spotting to prelims and blank verso of some plates, a vg+ copy. Finely bound in not recent ? tan calf by Henry Sotheran Ltd, spine in 6 compartments with title label and ornate gilt tooling. A South African classic, the story of a Staffordshire bull terrier in the late 19th century in the Bushveld region of the Transvaal, a much reprinted title, the first edition being particularly scarce.
Ref:
19709