WALTER BURTON HARRIS (1866-1933)
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WALTER BURTON HARRIS (1866-1933)
The Land of An African Sultan: Travels in Morocco 1887, 1888, and 1889. London: Sampson Low, 1889. 4° (247 X 183mm). 27 plates and illustrations mounted on India paper. (Offsetting to dedication leaf from news cutting.) Original pictorial cloth, top edge gilt, others uncut (extremities rubbed). Provenance: Walter Grant, Morocco 1919 (inscription on front free endpaper and ownership stamps, one on title, with two letters from the author to Grant laid in at front, related news cuttings on blanks at front and back, lithographed 'Plan of the city of Morocco' after Paul Lambert and Arthur Leared, 1872, on rear pastedown).
NUMBER 5 OF 200 COPIES with illustrations on India paper. Harris, for many years the Times correspondent in Morocco, first went there in 1887, accompanying the mission of Sir William Kirby-Green to Marrakesh. According to his obituary in The Times, his 'exploits as a traveller in the primitive, largely closed, fanatical Morocco of those days aroused the highest admiration ... In one art, that of disguise, he was unexcelled ... early exploits such as his ride to Sheshouan and his journey over the Atlas to Tafilelt, were undoubtedly the foundation of that singular popularity which Harris came to enjoy among all classes of the Moors, humblest to highest.' His two letters to Grant, dated Tangier, Morocco, 7 June and 1 August 1919, 6pp. in total, thank him for sending 'some household articles'. The first refers to 'the pleasantest recollection of those few days we were together at Marrakesh' and asks if they can be repeated; the second mentions the postponement of a planned journey to Marrakesh so he can arrive 'when the Pacha is there'. RARE TITLE.
The Land of An African Sultan: Travels in Morocco 1887, 1888, and 1889. London: Sampson Low, 1889. 4° (247 X 183mm). 27 plates and illustrations mounted on India paper. (Offsetting to dedication leaf from news cutting.) Original pictorial cloth, top edge gilt, others uncut (extremities rubbed). Provenance: Walter Grant, Morocco 1919 (inscription on front free endpaper and ownership stamps, one on title, with two letters from the author to Grant laid in at front, related news cuttings on blanks at front and back, lithographed 'Plan of the city of Morocco' after Paul Lambert and Arthur Leared, 1872, on rear pastedown).
NUMBER 5 OF 200 COPIES with illustrations on India paper. Harris, for many years the Times correspondent in Morocco, first went there in 1887, accompanying the mission of Sir William Kirby-Green to Marrakesh. According to his obituary in The Times, his 'exploits as a traveller in the primitive, largely closed, fanatical Morocco of those days aroused the highest admiration ... In one art, that of disguise, he was unexcelled ... early exploits such as his ride to Sheshouan and his journey over the Atlas to Tafilelt, were undoubtedly the foundation of that singular popularity which Harris came to enjoy among all classes of the Moors, humblest to highest.' His two letters to Grant, dated Tangier, Morocco, 7 June and 1 August 1919, 6pp. in total, thank him for sending 'some household articles'. The first refers to 'the pleasantest recollection of those few days we were together at Marrakesh' and asks if they can be repeated; the second mentions the postponement of a planned journey to Marrakesh so he can arrive 'when the Pacha is there'. RARE TITLE.
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