Description
Cape Views and Costumes by Henry Clifford de Meillon.
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
