SUPPLEMENTARY TEXT & ILLUSTRATIONS

The Private Library SUMMER 2008, 6th Series, Vol 1, No 2

PETER CARSTENS OF JOHANNESBURG
PRELIMINARY LIST OF DE LUXE EDITIONS

The presentation or sponsors’ copies are usually in full leather with solander boxes, and the collectors’ copies are in half-leather with matching slipcases. In rare cases the client did not want a slipcase. In a few instances the binding is quarter or three-quarter-leather, or in cloth.
The number of de luxe copies given in the books and that eventually bound sometimes differ, as the editions may have been under or over-subscribed. There were even occasions when the de luxe edition never materialized at all! Where the number of copies is not given, or where it differs from Carstens’s estimate I have given the latter, preceded by ca.
The descriptions are in the ISBD format. In many cases I have viewed only the standard edition, in some cases none at all, basing my description on catalogues such as OCLC’s WorldCat.

ACORN BOOKS, CRAIGHALL, JOHANNESBURG
The imprint of Eleanor-Mary Cadell. Some of the titles were published jointly with bookseller/publisher Russell Friedman.

The black eagle : a study / by Valerie Gargett. – 1990. – 279 p. ; 29×22 cm. – 7 sponsors’, ca. 70 collectors’ copies (not 200 as stated in the book).
Botswana : a brush with the wild / Paul Augustinus. – 1997. – 207 p. ; 26×35 cm. – 58 de luxe copies.
Desert adventure : in search of wilderness in Namibia and Botswana / Paul Augustinus. – 1997. – 240 p. ; 28×30 cm. – 100 collectors’ copies.
Dierama : the hairbells of Africa / text by O. M. Hilliard and B. L. Burt ; illustrations by Auriol Batten. – 1991. – 152 p. ; 32×25 cm. – 10 sponsors’, 90 collectors’ copies.
Ducks of sub-Saharan Africa / text by Gordon Lindsay Maclean ; illustrations by Gail Darroll. – 1986. – 150 p. ; 43×32 cm. – 26 remarque (artist’s proof) copies in half-leather bound by Carstens; 200 collectors’ copies bound by GraphiCraft. A handsome book.
The Johannesburg College of Education : a history, 1909–1983 / A. Napier Boyce. – 1999. – 224 p. ; 23×16 cm. – 5 full leather, 20 half-leather copies (not stated in the book).
Lithops : flowering stones / Desmond T. Cole ; artwork by Gerhard Marx. – 1988. – 254 p. ; 25×20 cm. – 10 sponsors’, 90 collectors’, 6 presentation copies.
Robins of Africa / text by Terry Oatley ; illustrations by Graeme Arnott. – 1998. – 208 p. ; 31×24 cm. – 24 sponsors’, 100 collectors’ copies.
The slipper orchids / text by Esmé F. Hennessy and Tessa A. Hedge ; illustrations by Esmé F. Hennessy. – 1989. – 263 p. ; 34×25 cm. – 26 sponsors’, 100 collectors’ copies.
The vultures of Africa / Peter Mundy ... [et al.] ; illustrations by Duncan Butchart. – 1992. – 464 p. ; 29×22 cm. – 26 sponsors’ and ca. 70 collectors’ copies (not 150 as stated in the book).

AD DONKER, CRAIGHALL, JOHANNESBURG

Black, bronze, beautiful : quatrains by Adam Small. – 1975. – 50 p. ; 13×16 cm. – 10 quarter-leather copies (not 50 as stated in the colophon), handprinted letterpress by Alan Dodson. A charming book.
A Johannesburg album : historical postcards / Oscar I. Norwich. – 1986. – 165 p. ; 331×26 cm. – 50 de luxe copies.
Maps of Africa : an illustrated and annotated carto-bibliography / Oscar I. Norwich ; bibliographical descriptions by Pam Kolbe. – 1983. – 444 p. ; 30×23 cm. – ca. 50 de luxe copies (not 100 as stated in the book).
Pennington’s butterflies of southern Africa. – [1st ed.]. – 1978. – 670 p. ; 29×22 cm. – 50 half-leather collectors’ copies.
Kingfishers of sub-Saharan Africa / text and illustrations by Phillip A. Clancey. – Jonathan Ball and Ad Donker, 1992. – 212 p. ; 34×25 cm. – 26 copies in three-quarter-leather. A lovely book.

THE BRENTHURST PRESS, JOHANNESBURG.
http://www.brenthurst.org.za/press.htm

The Brenthurst [First] Series, 5 to 10
Carstens was not involved with the first four in the series. For the others he provided 125 collectors’ copies in half-leather. Dimensions: 27×27 cm, but no. 5 is 27×19 cm.
1:5 Invasion of Zululand, 1879. – 1979. – 295 p.
1:6 Paterson’s Cape travels, 1777 to 1779. – 1980. – 202 p.
1:7 The War of the Axe, 1847. – 1981. – 287 p.
1:8 Baines on the Zambezi, 1852 to 1959. – 1982. – 251 p.
1:9 The defence of Ladismith and Mafeking. – 1983. – 275 p.
1:10 Zululand at war, 1879. – 1984. – 299 p.

Brenthurst Second Series
Winstanley bound the 25 full leather copies of Numbers 1 and 2, but Carstens bound the rest of the series: 25 full leather copies and 125 half-leather. Dimensions: 31×24 cm. From 4 onwards South African leathers were used.
2:1 Livingstone letters, 1843 to 1872. – 1985. – 255 p.
2:2 John Blades Currey, 1850 to 1900. – 1986. – 275 p.
2:3 Melton Prior, war artist ... 1895 to 1900. – 1987. – 278 p.
2:4 & 2:5 Robert Jacob Gordon : Cape travels, 1777 to 1786. – 1988. – 2 volumes.
2:6 A soldier in South Africa : the experiences of Eustace Abadie, 1899 to 1902. – 1989. – 207 p.
2:7 Thomas Baines : Eastern Cape sketches, 1848 to 1852. – 1990. – 209 p.
2:8 ‘Vanity Fair’ in South Africa, 1869 to 1914. – 1991. – 223 p.
2:9 Britain at the Cape, 1795 to 1803. – 1992. – 263 p.
2:10 The Cape of Good Hope, 1806 to 1872 : ... British society ... . – 1994. – 236 p.

Brenthurst Third Series
Carstens bound only numbers 2 to 4. Dimensions: 31×25 cm. Edition: 25 full leather, 150 half-leather. European leathers are used; marbled paper by Jacky Fletcher of Durban.
3:2 Flora Herscheliana : Sir John and Lady Herschel at the Cape, 1834 to 1838. – 1998. – 295 p.
3:3 & 3:4 The siege of Mafeking. – 2001. – 2 volumes.

FERNWOOD PRESS, VLAEBERG, CAPE TOWN
http://www.fernwoodpress.co.za/
The imprint of Pieter Struik, himself a great supporter of de luxe editions from other publishers. Fernwood de luxe copies have a fern on the spines, done in gold foil.

The abundant herds : a celebration of the cattle of the Zulu people / Marguerite Poland and David Hammond-Tooke ; Leigh Voigt, artwork. – 2003. – 144 p. ; 28 x 29 cm. – 26 sponsors’, 51 collectors’ copies.
Art & aspirations : the randlords of South Africa and their collections / Michael Stevenson. – 2002. – 199 p. : 31×28 cm. – 15 sponsors’, 35 collectors’ copies.
Artists & illustrators of the Anglo-Boer War / Ryno Greenwall. – 1992. – 264 p. ; 31×24 cm. – 47 collectors’ copies.
Cats of Africa / text by Anthony Hall-Martin ; paintings ... by Paul Bosman. – 1997. – 152 p. ; 28×29 cm. – 100 collectors’ copies.
Gasterias of South Africa / Ernst J. Van Jaarsveld ; illustrations by Ellaphie Ward-Hilhorst. – 1994. – 96 p. ; 31×24 cm. – ca. 50 de luxe copies.
Gladiolus in southern Africa / Peter Goldblatt & John Manning ; watercolours by Fay Anderson & Auriol Batten. – 1998. – 320 p. ; 31×24 cm. – 51 de luxe copies.
The life and art of François Krige / Justin Fox. – 2000. – 144 p. ; 25×28 cm. – 11 sponsors’, 16 collectors’ copies.
The life and work of Charles Bell / by Phillida Brooke Simons. – 1998. – 176 p. ; 25×28 cm. – 15 special, 60 collectors’ copies.
The life and work of Thomas Baines / Jane Carruthers [and] Marion Arnold. – 1995. – 184 p. ; 25×28 cm. – a few sponsors’ copies and 100 collectors’ copies.
South African botanical art : peeling back the petals / Marion Arnold, [editor]. – 2001. – 216 p. ; 30×23 cm. – 20 sponsors’, 44 collectors’ copies.
Surviving the lens : photographic studies of South and East African people, 1870–1920 / Michael Stevenson [and] Michael Graham-Stewart. – 2001. – 144 p. ; 31×28 cm. – ca. 5 de luxe copies.

JONATHAN BALL PUBLISHERS, JOHANNESBURG

Battlefields of South Africa / by George Chadwick ... [et al.] ; paintings by Gail van Lingen. – 1991. – 144 p. ; 31×43 cm. – 26 copies in three-quarter-leather, with solander boxes.
Larger than life : Donald Gordon and the Liberty Life story / Ken Romain. – 1989. – 429 p. ; 23 cm. ; 23×16 cm. – ca. 20 de luxe copies, not mentioned in the book.
Keith Alexander : the artist in retrospect / [by] David Robbins. – 2000. – 266 p. ; 33×27 cm. – ca. 25 de luxe copies, not mentioned in the book.
Rainbow warrior / François Pienaar, with Edward Griffiths. – 1999. – 319 p. ; 23×150 cm. – ca. 10 de luxe copies, not mentioned in the book.

SAPPI, JOHANNESBURG
Paper company Sappi commissioned a series of artists to paint wildlife, and scientists to write provide a texts to accompany the pictures. The pictures were then printed in limited editions. Each print was placed in a folded sheet containing the scientist’s explanatory notes, and the collection boxed. In most cases the production was handled for Sappi by Molly Buchanan Productions. The collections were then sold as portfolios in the Sappi selection series. Print dimensions: 49×40 cm. In each case about 50 copies were bound into book form by Carstens. Only two were viewed, both in portfolio form.

Birds of the southern Cape / Gail Darroll ; Gordon Lindsay Maclean, [text]. – 1989. – [14] folded sheets, [13] leaves of plates; box 52×43 cm.
Birds of the veld and vlei / Gail Darroll ; Alan Kemp, [text]. – 1993. – [40] leaves; 50 cm.
David Shepherd in southern Africa ; [text by] Wilbur Smith. – 1993. – [12] leaves.
Flowers of southern Africa / Thalia Lincoln ; John P. Rourke ... [et al., text]. – 1995. – [13] leaves. – box 53×43 cm.
The kingfisher and bee-eaters of southern Africa / David Ord Kerr ; Richard Brooke, [text]. – 1990. – 14 folded leaves of plates.

STRUIK-WINCHESTER PRESS, CAPE TOWN
The brothers Cornelis and Pieter Struik bought Winchester Press.

The complete book of southern African birds / compiled by P. J. Ginn, W. G. McIlleron and P. le S. Milstein. – 1989. – 760 p. ; 33×26 cm. – 200 collectors’, 26 sponsors’copies (the latter not stated in the book).
Contemporary ceramics in South Africa / Wilma Cruise, text ; Doreen Hemp, photographs. – 1991. – 208 p. ; 29×27 cm. – 26 sponsors’, 150 collectors’ copies.
Cycads of Africa / Douglas Goode. – 1989. – 256 p. ; 32×24 cm. – 26 sponsors’, 100 collectors’ copies.
Esias Bosch / text by Andree Bosch and Johann de Waal ; photographs by Willie van Heerden. – 1988. – 191 p. ; 31×24 cm. – 100 collectors’ copies.
Hunters of the African sky / Peter Steyn [and] Graeme Arnott. – 1990. – 96 p. ; 38×27 cm. – 20 sponsors’, 125 collectors’ copies.
I was lonelyness [sic] : the complete graphic works of John Muafangejo. – 1992. – 427 p. ; 30×25 cm. – 13 de luxe copies.
The Owls Of southern Africa / text by Alan Kemp ; paintings by Simon Calburn. – 1987. – 184 p. ; 31×24 cm. – 12 sponsors’, 76 collectors’ copies.
Robert Jacob Gordon, 1743–1795 : the man and his travels at the Cape / Patrick Cullinan. – 1992. – 215 p. ; 31×24 cm. – 14 special, 40 collectors’ copies.
Shrikes of southern Africa / text by Tony Harris ; illustrations by Graeme Arnott. – 1988. – 224 p. ; 31×24 cm. – 9 sponsors’, 140 collectors’ copies.
West Coast : a circle of seasons in South Africa / compiled by Peter Pickford ; food photographs by Alain Proust. – 1991. – 204 p. ; 31×28 cm. – 5 sponsors’, 34 collectors’ copies.

UMDAUS PRESS, HATFIELD, PRETORIA
http://www.umdaus.com/
An Afrikaans publisher specializing in books on succulents. On their website http://www.umdaus.com Carstens is named, but mostly not in the books.

Cotyledon and tylecodon / by Ernst van Jaarsveld and Daryl Koutnik ; illustrations by Elise Bodley and Lisa Strachan. – 2004. – 156 p. ; 30×24 cm. – 6 sponsors’, 30 collectors’ copies.
Figs of southern & South-Central Africa / by John and Sandra Burrows. – 2003. – 379 p. ; 32×24 cm. – 7 sponsors’, 22 collectors’ copies.
Geophytic pelargoniums : field and cultivation studies of Pelargonium section Hoarea / Charles Craib ; illustrations by Gillian Condy. – 2001. – 126 p. ; 27×21 cm. – 8 presentation, 10 sponsors’ and 25 collectors’ copies.
Grass aloes in the South African veld / Charles Craib ; paintings by Gillian Condy ; drawings by Murray Ralfe. – 2005. – 156 p. ; 33×24 cm. – 5 sponsors’, 24 collectors’, 4 presentation copies.
Haworthia revisited / Bruce Bayer. – 1999. – 250 p. ; 28×21 cm. – 6 sponsors’, 35 collectors’ copies.
Irises / Barbara Jeppe. – 1999. – 95 p. ; 42×30 cm. – ca. 40 de luxe copies.
Mills of southern Africa : water, wind and horse / Chester O. Staples. – 2006. – 228 p. ; 28×25 cm. – 3 sponsors’, 42 collectors’ copies.
Living butterflies of southern Africa. Volume 1 / by Graham A. Henning...[et al.] – 1997. – 397 p. ; 31×24 cm.. – 8 sponsors’, 30 collectors’ copies.
Rebirth of science in Africa / edited by Himansu Baijnath and Yashica Singh. – 2002. – 246 p. ; 27×19 cm. – ca. 15 de luxe copies.
Regions of floristic endemism in southern Africa / Abraham E. van Wyk [and] Gideon F. Smith – 2001. – 199 p. ; 31×24 cm. – 9 sponsors’, 19 collectors’ copies.
Richtersveld, the enchanted wilderness / by Graham Williamson. – 2000. – 258 p. ; 31×27 cm. – 2 presentation, 7 sponsors’, 36 collectors’ copies.
Stapeliads of southern Africa and Madagascar / by Peter V. Bruyns. – 2005. – 2 volumes in a double-slipcase ; 31×23 cm. – 4 sponsors’, 27 collectors’ copies.

WINCHESTER PRESS, JOHANNESBURG
The imprint of Guy Winchester-Gould, a consummate marketer of his books. On the spines of Winchester Press de luxe copies there is a blind-stamped image of a bird.

The bird paintings of C. G. Finch-Davies / introduction by Alan Kemp. – 1984. – 311 p. ; 38×29 cm. – 26 presentation, 300 collectors’ copies.
The birds of prey of southern Africa / colour plates by Claude Gibney Finch-Davies ; text by Alan Kemp. – 1980. – 339 p. ; 29×22 cm. – 26 presentation, 200 collectors’ copies.
The birds of southern Africa / colour plates by Claude Gibney Finch-Davies ; text by Alan Kemp. – 1982. – 488 p. ; 30×23 cm. – 26 presentation, 250 collectors’ copies.
Gamebirds & waterfowl of southern Africa : a collection of 68 water-colours / by C. G. Finch-Davies. – 1986. – 190 p. ; 31×24 cm. – 26 presentation, 25 collectors’ copies.
The gamebirds and waterfowl of South Africa / by Boyd Robert Horsbrugh ; with colour plates by Claude Gibney Davies [sic]. – 1978. – 54, ix, 159 p. – 26×19 cm. – ca. 26 sponsors’ and ca. 50 collectors’ copies (not 40 as stated in the book). – Facsimile reprint of The gamebirds and & waterfowl of South Africa by Boyd Horsbrugh, published in four parts in 1912 by Witherby, London. The Winchester edition includes biographical essays and a ‘status of species’ report.
Geoff Lockwood’s garden birds of southern Africa. – 1981. – 180 p. ; 30×22 cm.. – ca. 40 de luxe copies.
The rare birds of southern Africa / written and illustrated by P. A. Clancey. – 1985. – 512 p. ; 28×22 cm. – 26 presentation, 20 remarqué (artist’s proof), 280 collectors’ copies.

OTHER PUBLISHERS

The birds around us : birds of the southern African region / Richard Liversidge ; illustrated by Jill Adams and Norman Lighton. – Parklands : Fontein, 1991. – 487 p, ; 30×20 cm. – 14 sponsors’, 86 collectors’ copies.
Flower paintings of Katherine Saunders. – Maidstone : The Tongaat Group, 1979. – 343 p. ; 33×25 cm. – 40 copies in full dark green leather.
Flowers of southern Africa / Auriol Batten. – Fourways : Frandsen, 1986. – 401 p. ; 32×25 cm. – 81 collectors’ copies.
Gregoire Boonsaier / [by] Martin Bekker. – Cape Town : Human & Rousseau, 1990. – 122 p. ; 33×25 cm. – 90 collectors’ copies.
H. F. O. : some personal perspectives on Harry Frederick Oppenheimer by his colleagues and friends / compiled and edited by Barry Mortimer. – Houghton : Brenthurst Press, for the Anglo American Corporation, 1985. – 228 p. ; 58×45 cm. – ca. 100 copies in cloth.
Letters and diary of Lieutenant G. E. S. Salt during the war in South Africa, 1899–1902. – Johannesburg : Daveon Press, 1974. – 119 p. ; 22×17 cm. – ca. 20 copies in full leather. – Facsimile reprint of the 1902 edition by John Murray, London.
Life etched in stone : fossils of South Africa / Colin McRae. – Johannesburg : The Geological Society of South Africa, 1999. – 305 p. ; 31×24 cm. – Designed and supervised by Robin Frandsen; 40 sponsors’, 35 collectors’ copies.
A prisoner in the garden : opening Nelson Mandela’s prison archive. – Johannesburg : Penguin, 2005. – 208 p. ; 25×20 cm. – 100 three-quarter-leather copies signed by Mandela.
Spring and winter flowering bulbs of the Cape / text and watercolours by Barbara Jeppe. – Cape Town : O.U.P., 1989. – 143 p. ; 35×25 cm. – 100 collectors’ copies.
Stapeliarum in hortis Vindobonensibus cultarum / Baron Nikolaus Joseph L. B. A. Jacquin. – Sandton : Constantia Classics Publications, 1982. – [140] leaves ; 47×31 cm. – 150 collectors’ copies. – Facsimile of 1806 original. A handsome book.
T’kama-Adamastor : inventions of Africa in a South African painting / edited by Ivan Vladislavić. – Johannesburg : University of the Witwatersrand, 2000. – 180 p. ; 31×26 cm. – 20 de luxe copies.

FINE PRESS BOOKS
Cape Town days, and other poems / by Stephen Watson ; illustrated by Pippa Skotnes. – Cape Town : Cecil Skotnes & Clarke’s Bookshop, 1989. – 14 leaves, 34 p. ; 37×27 cm. – 2 full leather, 28 half-leather copies.
The cycad collection. Volume 1. Natal Province / hand-coloured stone lithographs by Douglas Goode ; text by John Comrie-Greig. – Balgowan : The Caversham Press, 1996. – xvii, 45 p., 22 leaves ; 32×25 cm. – ca. 20 copies in half-leather.. – http://www.cavershamcentre.org/history.htm
A Dante bestiary : a guide, in offset lithographs and an essay by Judith Mason, to diverse beasts, creatures, monsters, figures and spiritual beings from La divina commedia of Dante the Florentine, with selected texts in translation. – New York : Ombondi Editions, 1989. – [194] p. ; 41×30 cm. – 8 copies bound by Carstens. –110 English copies and 15 Italian copies (Un bestiario Dantesco) were printed by Bruce Attwood at Broederstroom, South Africa. The sheets were sent to New York and sold in various bindings and in portfolio format. After the death in 1994 of the publisher the remaining unbound sheets were sent back to South Africa to his brother Wilhelm Schmidt (+27-12-734-4907). In 1996 Mark Attwood printed a new colophon for the copies to be distributed in South Africa.. – The book contains one original oil painting on an erotic theme.
Face value : old heads in new masks : a visual, archaeological and historical reading of the Lydenburg heads / [essays] edited by Malcolm Payne ; [21 prints] by Malcolm Payne. – Cape Town : Axeage Private Press, 1993. – 139 p. ; 54×39 cm. – 50 copies, 7 artist’s proofs, all in quarter-leather. – malcolm.payne@uct.ac.za, or +27-21-480-7107
The human race / Robert Hodgins. – Johannesburg : Goodman Gallery, 2002. – [48] p. ; 24×18 cm. – Printed by Mark Attwood; ca. 30 de luxe copies (not 120 as stated in the book).
The hunter / by Olive Schreiner ; with 12 metal-engravings by Wendy Vincent. – Johannesburg : Egon Guenther, 1981. – [136] p. ; 32×24 cm. – 75 copies.
Man’s gold / by Stephen Gray ; with 28 woodcuts by Cecil Skotnes. – Johannesburg : Egon Guenther, 1978. – [160] p. ; 41×51 cm. – ca. 50 copies (not 75 as stated in the colophon).
Quaqaua : a San folk story from Botswana / told by Coex’ae Qgam. – Johannesburg : The Artists’ Press, 1996. – 58 p. ; 27×30 cm. – 100 copies (by Carstens, not Johan Maree as stated in the colophon). – http://www.artprintsa.com/
The rooinek / by Herman Charles Bosman ; with 214 wood-engravings by Cecil Skotnes. – Johannesburg : Egon Guenther, 1981. – [136] p. ; 32×24 cm. – 75 copies.
Sound from the thinking strings : ... the final years of /Xam life / edited by Pippa Skotnes. – Cape Town : Axeage Private Press, 1991. – 162 p. ; 39×33 cm. – 65 copies in quarter leather.
The ultimate safari / by Nadine Gordimer. – Johannesburg : The Artists’ Press, 2001. – 52 p. ; 20×29 cm. – 100 copies in cloth. – http://www.artprintsa.com/

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