Its unexpected popularity and critical success obliged the publisher to print a second impression in April of the same year
there was a vibrant quest for models
seven colour illustrations out of 32 in total
Inked owner's inscription to front endpapers in vol I
A Fine copy of the Pickering Edition with a strong Cambridge association
Travels in West Africa. Congo Francais, Corisco and Cameroons Southern Its unexpected popularity and criticalLondon: Macmillan, 1897. First Edition (fifth thousand). 8vo (9 x 6 ins); pp xvi, [744], + 8 adverts. Original dark red cloth, gilt title lettering to spine. 2 lithographed plates of fish, 16 photographic plates, and numerous vignettes in the text. Scattered blotches of foxing throughout, never very heavy. Old ink owner's name to half title, plus inked note in manuscript to top margin of first pages of text. Ex. libris Albert Ruskin Cook, with his