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The White Monday Disaster

Item date(s): 1975

Stephen Gray  - (poems by)
Cecil Skotnes  - (woodcuts by)
Charles Peter Thunberg  - (commentary by)


Pages: unpaged
Size: 57cm x 73cm, oblong
Language: English
Inscription: Signed by both artists.
Edition: #16/125


Place publication: Cape Town
Publisher: ABC Press

Additional notes:
13 Episodes in the life of a man and his borrowed horse from the history of the Cape in 1773 based on the eye-witness report of Charles Peter Thurnberg.

13 original woodcuts by Cecil Skotnes with text by Stephen Gray.

This edition limited to 125 numbered 1 to 125 and 25 artists proofs numbered I to XXV of which each graphic is signed by the artist and each set signed on the title page by the artist and poet.

Although the imprint, ABC Press, does not appear, this is confirmed by Stephen Gray. ABC also printed Shaka before Egon Gunther began printing for Gray and Skotnes.

Ref: GB/14941







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