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Scenes in Kafirland,

and incidents in the Kafir War of 1851-2-3.

Stock Code 113915

London, Dickinson, 1854

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Twenty-one hand-coloured lithographed plates. The rare hand-coloured edition of Graham and Robinson's Scenes in Kafirland. In their preface the authors commend the country for its great beauty, Apart from views of the landscape, the plates show the British army on patrol and scenes of Kafir life; a very attractive work. Graham and Robinson were officers in the 43rd Monmouthshire Regiment, who served in South Africa December 1851 to December 1853. The artists' names were established by Mendelssohn who states 'On examination of Hart's Army List for 1853, it appears that the only officers of the 43rd Light Infantry answering to [the initials L.G. and H.R.]... were Lieutenants Lumley Graham and Hugh Robinson'. It is likely that Henry Robinson was a relative of Hugh Robinson.

First edition; folio (53.5 x 36 cm approx.); letterpress title, 1 page explanatory text, 21 hand-coloured lithographed plates on 18 leaves after sketches by the authors; original upper wrapper bound in at end, later red half morocco gilt for Sawyer of Grafton Street, slipcase, light discolouration to covers else a fine clean copy.

Abbey Travel 344; Bobins, I, 95; Mendelssohn, I, 801.
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Provenance: Henry Robinson (signature to upper wrapper).

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Scenes in Kafirland,

GRAHAM, Lieut. Lumley; ROBINSON, Lieut. Hugh.

Stock code: 113915

$8,400.00

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