1986 John Blades Currey 1850-1900 Fifty Years in the Cape Colony

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Colour Plates, First Edition, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding, With Dustwrapper

Limited edition of this work, one of eight hundred and fifty unnumbered copies bound in cloth, complete with unclipped dust wrapper. The first edition of this work, containing John Blades Currey's memoirs of fifty years in South Africa, where he exerted a deep influence on the Cape's most famous man, and chronicled the political and social events of his time. 

John Blades Currey's was Colonial Secretary to the Government of Griqualand West and an influential businessman and politician of the Cape Colony. 

Illustrated with sixty four plates printed in text, of which some are impressive watercolours by a variety of artists including Thomas Baines and Frederick I'Ons among others, as well as a black and white photographic portrait frontispiece of John Blades Currey by Henry van de Weyde. Collated, complete.