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Lloyd, William Whitelock. SKETCHES TAKEN WITH 1ST BATTALION 24TH REGT. IN BRITISH KAFFARIA. NATAL. ZULULAND AND ON THE VOYAGE HOME. Album containing 100 watercolours and 24 pen and ink or pencil sketches (also one photograph) with captions in pencil (on the mount) and some in ink (on the image), drawn by a soldier on active service during the Anglo-Zulu War, highly accomplished, accurate and detailed illustrations of the conflict and its landscape including Rorke's Drift House in the weeks immediately after the battle there, views of troops movements during the Battle of Ulundi, the battlefield at Isandlhwana, the location where the Prince Imperial was killed, many landscape views of Zululand including a three-page panorama of the Valley of Ulundi and a two-page panorama of the 2nd Division Camp in Zululand, troops advancing through Zululand, laager, camps and settlements (such as Fort Napier, Maritzburg), studies of soldiers and Zulus, also other South African scenes and views of Madeira, Tenerife and other ports visited on the return voyage to England, all sketches mounted in the album, 109 pages, plus blanks, with 12 modern protective leaves interleaved, oblong folio (285 x 370mm), 1878-79, half black morocco, album leaves with nicks and tears professionally repaired, four stubs, tears to two album leaves where items have apparently been removed, rebacked [with:] W.W. Lloyd. On Active Service. London: Chapman and Hall, 1890. first edition, covers worn; Pencillings. 1987; David Rattray. A Soldier-Artist in Zululand: William Whitelock Lloyd and the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879. Rorke's Drift: Rattray Publications, 2007, number 7 of 20 presentation copies bound in full leather and signed by the author's widow, folding map, slip-case, with two loose plates ("Isandhlwana Rock from the Neck") numbers 33 and 34 of 50