Cape Views and Costumes: Water-colours by HC de Meillon Anna H Smith

Brenthurst Press, Series No 3. 1978 1st ed. 

Hardcover with dustjacket.

Includes a pamphlet by Robert CH Shell titled, "De Meillon's people of colour" by same publisher and year of publication. 

Hardcover condition: very good.

D/J condition: Very good, minor edgewear to bottom of spine. 

Pamplet condition: Very good.

134 pages. 27cm x 27 cm.

Cape Views and Costumes by Henry Clifford de Meillon is the third volume in the Brenthurst Series. Only 850 copies printed - It is an attractive work illustrated in colour with many plates of De Meillon's water-colours of pre-Victorian Cape Town.

The book includes 23 water-colours which De Meillon painted of the buildings of Cape Town and of the 64 costume plates of the city's inhabitants. 

De Meillon's People of Colour, by Robert C.H. Shell is included: it is a bound article on their dress and occupations with special reference to Cape Views and Costumes. 

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