Three Months’ Visitation, by the Bishop of Capetown, in the Autumn of 1855: with an Account of his Voyage to the Island of Tristan d’Acunha

First edition, inscribed in Cambridge two years after publication ‘To Frances Hester Athuissa[?] with the kind regards of the Bishop of Cape Town Cambridge Nov 2.d 1858’. Gray was the first Bishop of Capetown which stretched across 250,000 square miles when he assumed the position, making this account an unusally ambitious project.

DESCRIPTION: Publisher’s green blind-stamped cloth with gilt lettering; wear to the top and tail of the spine, publisher’s binding is good condition only. Yellow coated endpapers with the bookplate of V M Turnbull (Valentine Mounsey Turnbull, teacher, master at Perse School Cambridge, Trinity College, 1888). Inscribed on the half-title page; staining to the frontispiece and other (coloured, Baxter-process) plates but not to the text. A little cracking over the lower inner hinge.