Sporting Scenes amongst the Kaffirs of South Africa.

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VG, 2nd ed, 1860, 8 pls. In contemporary red half morocco with red cloth covers a little worn, corners and edges rubbed, some blind tooling, marks and a small tear at lower cover. Spine, gilt tooling and titles, edges worn slightly. Internal, half title, frontis, [5], (vi-xiv), [1], 2-327 pp, 8 pls (B&W), green endpapers, pencil name to fpd (Harvey), small embossed bookseller stamp to ffep, text block edges sprinkled red, printed by Cox and Wyman, Great Queen Street, London. First published in 1858 and illustrated by Harrison Weir. This edition is uncommon. (Schwerdt 150 for1st ed). (Folio, 12.8*18.6). Drayson had been a professor at the Military Academy at Woolwich, an explorer, and the author of fiction and travel books.