Architectural beauty of the old Cape as seen by Arthur Elliott : Photographs of houses and farmsteads now largely demolished or ruined taken at the beginning of the twentieth century By Fransen Hans
Architectural beauty of the old Cape as seen by Arthur Elliott : Photographs of houses and farmsteads now largely demolished or ruined taken at the beginning of the twentieth century By Fransen Hans
Elliott, Arthur (photographer); selection, annotations & introduction by Hans Fransen
Hardcover
Publisher: A. A. Balkema 1969 First Edition.
Used - Very Good. This book is in very good condition. The DJ is in a poor condition it has some limited signs of wear and tear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. The book is protected with a Cellophane cover.
The bold but otherwise unattractive dustjacket seems out of place on such a beautifully made book. The dustjacket of ths copy has been repaired to appear more or less complete. The grey linen boards, gilt to front panel and spine, are almost mint, and the binding remains fine despite the unfair demands of a square format and heavy text stock. The plain endpapers are unmarked but sunned.
Frontispiece + vi + 343 pp of illustrated text and index on art paper. The arrangement is a full-page plate on the right and the plate number, location and description on the left.
This now classic book by Hans Fransen (then curator of the Stellenbosch Museum) presents perhaps the liveliest annotated collection of Elliott's architectural photographs of the Western Cape.
Of the nearly 10,000 negatives in the Elliott Collection, bought by the Government Archives in Cape Town soon after the American-born Elliott died in 1938, fewer than 2000 are of architectural subjects. Of these, Fransen, then the curator of the Stellenbosch Museum, selected 160 of the best and most interesting for this book. Nearly all depicted subjects no longer in existence. The thirty-odd photographs of scenes that do still exist unchanged today have been included because they are Elliott's 'classics'. They also introduce a note of optimism.
The images show a small selection of Elliott's much-admired early-twentieth-century photographs. The Elliott Collection, comprising some 10,000 mainly uncaptioned and undated prints and negatives, is housed in the Archives in Cape Town.
