Vanity Fair in Southern Africa, 1869 to 1914 by Clarke, Sonia
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Vanity Fair in Southern Africa, 1869 to 1914
Clarke, Sonia
ISBN 10: 0909079471
ISBN 13: 9780909079475
Item Description: The Brenthurst Press, Johannesburg, 1991. Maroon Cloth. Book Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Brenthurst second series, number 8. 223 pp. Beautifully illustrated throughout. Ribbon marker. No visible defects. A lovely dust-jacket. Limited print run, limited to 850 standard, unnumbered copies."The weekly magazine Vanity Fair was published in London from 1868 to 1914, and catered to the tastes of high-society Victorians and Edwardians. From 1869 each issue carried a caricature lithographed in full colour, depicting a notable person of the day. The portraits, with the often biting of amusing commentaries that accompanied them, provide entertaining glimpses of life in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Reproduced here is a selection of over eighty caricatures of personalities who had links with southern Africa during what was a turbulent time in the regions history. A broad commentary relates the characters to their contemporaries and events of the period." Size: Quarto. Hard Cover. Bookseller Inventory # 04785
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