Wild Flowers of the Transvaal by Letty, Cythna

(Pretoria: Trustees of the Wild Flowers of the Transvaal Book Fund, 1962). Text by R.A. Dyer, Inez C. Verdoorn and L.E. Codd. Foreword by Dr. Louisa Bolus. 4to; original coarse green cloth, lettered in gilt on spine and with flower device to upper cover; no dustwrapper; pictorial endpapers; pp. xiv + 362, incl. index; 174 colour plates. Cloth slightly rubbed and partially tanned; earlier owner's name signed on front pastedown; light browning to edges; occasional fox spot. Good to very good condition. "The paintings of wild flowers by Cythna Letty have earned for her the distinction of being referred to as South Africa's greatest botanical artist. Justification for this claim is to be found in the 174 colour plates reproduced in this volume. As Dr. L. Bolus says in her Foreword: if these flowers become our fast friends, we shall often recognize their affinities and will have at least a bowing acquaintance with many of their relations - near and distant. Cythna Letty reveals to us, in a mysterious way, more beauty in the flower than we might otherwise have seen." .