A Narrative of the Kaffir War of 1850-1851.

£850 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

SABIB II, p.363. “Issued contemporaneously with the Grahamstown edition in 4 numbered quarterly parts from Oct. 1851 to July 1852. Paged continuously. Text is incomplete: stops in the middle of chapter XXIII.” The plates are all by Thomas Baines, “… a Norfolk man, [who] had gone to South Africa in the 1840s and had covered the seventh Kafir War of 1846-47, but from 22 June 1851 to 18 January 1852 he served in the capacity of war artist to Major-General Henry Somerset, compiling eye-witness sketches… He also produced many scenes from the war based on account from soldiers… “ [Harrington British Artists and War… p.128] This edition, bound from the parts - original stab-holes visible in places - is distinctly uncommon.

• Year: 1851

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