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MILLAIS, John Guille.
A breath from the Veldt … With numerous illustrations by the author and frontispiece by the late Sir J. E. Millais … New and revised edition.
London, Henry Sotheran and Co., 1899.
Folio, pp. x, 345, [5 (ads)]; half-title, portrait of the author to title, 12 electro etchings, 49 full-page illustrations, and 88 illustrations in text; some foxing to electro plates, occasional light marks; very good in original dark green cloth with gilt title to spine and upper cover, black endpapers; some wear to extremities, a few marks; inscription of ‘E. Darley Jackson K.O.S.B.’ to front free endpaper.
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A breath from the Veldt … With numerous illustrations by the author and frontispiece by the late Sir J. E. Millais … New and revised edition.
Second edition, a handsome work, recounting John Guille Millais’ travel and hunting expedition to South Africa, copiously and beautifully illustrated by the author and containing ‘perhaps the most beautiful illustration connected with South African art’ by his father John Everett.
A slightly drier evaluation is offered by Czech: ‘highlighted by the author’s detailed illustrations, this work represents Millais’ journey toward the Limpopo River with excursions to hunt kudu, reedbuck, waterbuck, sable, and roan. Near the Nuanetsi River, he bagged buffalo and zebra. After leaving the Limpopo, he collected trophy kudu, as well as lion and leopard. A most readable and visually exciting book of African travel and big-game hunting’ (pp. 114-115).
