Portraits of the game and wild animals of Southern Africa : delineated from life in their native haunts, during a hunting expedition from the Cape Colony as far as the Tropic of Capricorn, in 1836 and 1837, with sketches of the field sports / by Captain W. Cornwallis Harris ... ; drawn on stone by Frank Howard.
Published / Created:
London : Published for the proprietor, by W. Pickering, Chancery Lane, and to be had of P. & D. Colnaghi, Pall Mall East; W. Wood, Tavistock Street, Covent Garden; and T. Cadell, Strand, 1840 [i.e. 1840-1842]London : Green and Martin, printers, Bartlett's Buildings
Physical Description:
vi, [6], 175, [1] pages, [31] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 61 cm (folio)
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts Folio B 2015 17Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
BEIN SSz14fg 137: Variant without printer's statement on added engraved t.p. P. [1]-[6] misbound between p. [iv] and [v]. Armorial bookplate: William Stevens Richardson. Bookplate: Sir Jonathan E. Backhouse, Bart. Bookseller's label: Thomas Thorne, Newcastle-on-Tyne. Binder's stamp: Bound by Hering 9 Newman Street.BEIN 1974 Folio 14: Variant with printer's statement on added engraved t.p. Bookseller's label: William Potter, Liverpool.Originally published in five parts, from 1840 to 1842.The 31 leaves of plates include an added lithographed title page and 30 lithographic illustrations, referred to as plates I-XXX in the corresponding letterpress.Subscription list: pages [3]-[5].Abbey, J.R. Travel in aquatint and lithography, 1770-1860, 335Tooley, R.V. English books with coloured plates, 1790-1860, 247BAC Folio B 2015 17: The Abbey copy. In the original five parts, with printed wrappers. Plates are hand-colored.
Subject Terms:
Zoology -- Africa, Southern. | Big game hunting -- Africa, Southern. | Safaris -- Africa, Southern. | Mammals -- Africa, Southern. | Richardson, William Stevens -- Bookplate. | Backhouse, Jonathan E. (Jonathan Edmund), Sir, 1849–1918 -- Bookplate.
Form/Genre:
Subscription lists (Publishing) -- England -- London -- 1840. | Lithographs. | Booksellers' labels (Provenance) -- Thomas Thorne. | Booksellers' labels (Provenance) -- William Potter. | Binders' stamps (Binding) -- Hering. | Armorial bookplates (Provenance) | Hand coloring.
Contributors:
Howard, Frank, 1805–1866, lithographer. | Pickering, William, 1796–1854, publisher. | Wood, W. (William), 1774–1857, bookseller. | P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., bookseller.