With Striking Illustrations
BARCLAY, Edgar.
Mountain life in Algeria ... With illustrations by the author. London, Kegan Paul, Trench, & Co., 1882.
Small 4to, pp. xviii, 119, [1]; with 8 photo engravings and 7 wood engravings, engraved headpieces and initials; some foxing to title and occasionally to plates and tissue guards; overall very good in original blue cloth by Burn & Co., gilt lettering to spine and upper cover, silver vignette to upper cover, black endpapers; some wear to spine ends, joints and corners, some marks to upper cover; ownership inscription ‘Alice E. Arkwright 1882’ to half-title.
First edition of this illustrated account of the Kabyle people of northern Algeria by the English artist Edgar Barclay (1842-1913). ‘From the city of Algiers, looking eastwards across the bay, is seen a snow-covered mass towering above lower ranges of mountains. It is to the country lying immediately beneath those snow-clad peaks, inhabited by a people of entirely different race and speech to the Arabs, and known as Kabyles, that the following pages relate. Though Algiers has many English visitors, this district remains little known’ (Introduction). Barclay studied at Dresden with Carolsfeld, and then in Rome, where he became friendly with Giovanni Costa.