Cape Town Dicky or Colonel Jack's Boy. GIFT Theo 1847-1923 Publisher: Hildesheimer & Faulkner Publish Year: 0 Publish Place: London & New York Illustrator: Alice (Mary) Havers 1850-190. Ernest Wilson Category: Miscellaneous, Foreign Travel, Antiquarian Book, History, Reference Book No: 004569 Status: For Sale Book Condition: Very Good Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall Jacket Condition: Binding: Hardcover Book Type: Unknown Edition: First Edition Inscription: Unknown £40.00 Add to Basket Ask a question Refer to a friend Additional information VG, 1st ed, c1887. In decorative card covers, corners and edges bumped and worn. Spine in brown cloth, no title. Internally, joint cracked, pencil name to fep, 64 pp, 16 full page colour chromo's, not dated but c1887. A lovely children's title. Boulger [née Havers], Dorothy Henrietta [pseud. Theo Gift], novelist, published two semi-autobiographical work, Lil Lorimer (1885), and Cape Town Dicky (1888), illustrated by her sister Alice, written for children and designed to teach a love of animals. See ODNB.
