First edition. Hand-coloured lithograph title & 20 further hand-coloured lithograph plates. Small folio. Particularly fine original pictorial cloth, gilt, slightly foxed as usual, a.e.g. [vi], 35pp. London, Day & Son, 1861.
The scarce coloured issue.
In the brief text accompanying the images, Lucas presents faily typical attitudes towards the Kaffirs, yet the real value of the work is in the plates, which are fine and often humorous. Mendelssohn I, p932.
