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Pama, C : Regency Cape Town: Daily life in the early eighteen-thirties illustrated with the hitherto unpublished Johannesburg Album of sketches

Tafelberg, 1975

This is limited edition number 380 of 1500 made. The verso of the title page has been signed by the author in black ink. The boards are a touch rubbed and the gilt dulled but remain square and whole. The dust jacket is rubbed, marked and worn, with a medium chip out of the bottom of the spine; this does not seem to have removed any text from the dust jacket, which is well protected in plastic. Aside from the chip, the dust jacket remains whole and intact. Internally, the pages are clean, crisp and complete. JV. K.. Book Condition: Near Fine. Binding: Hardcover. Jacket: Very Good

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Pama, C : Regency Cape Town: Daily life in the early eighteen-thirties illustrated with the hitherto unpublished Johannesburg album of sketches by Sir Charles . Town drawings and those of Frederick Knyvett

Tafelberg, 1975

ISBN 0624007170

Signed by Author. Limited edition Number 1288/1500. 140 pages (complete). Jacket edge worn, a bit chipped, small edge tears, tapped, marked. Boards shelf rubbed and marked. Mild tanning, minor markings. However, it is still in good condition, tightly bound and intact. 1st edition. MK.. Book Condition: Good. Binding: Hardcover. Jacket: Good

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Pama, C : Regency Cape Town. Daily life in the early eighteen-thirties illustrated with the hitherto unpublished Johannesburg Album of sketches by Sir Charles D'Oyly, together with his other Cape Town drawings and those of Frederick Knyvett

(Cape Town: Tafelberg, 1975) 0624007170

ISBN 0624007170

Number 1410 of an edition limited to 1500 copies, signed by the author. Author's signed presentation inscription to front free endpaper. 4to; original charcoal cloth, lettered in gilt on spine, and with gilt device to upper cover; pictorial dustwrapper, pp. (xii) + 140, incl. index; profusely illustrated. Dustwrapper ever so slightly edgeworn; earlier owner's name on front pastedown; some old tape marks to free endpapers; faint spotting to fore-edge. Very good condition. "In 1974 the Africana Museum, Johannesburg, bought an album of 100 pencil drawings by Sir Charles D'Oyly, all made in Cape Town in the early 1830's and only recently discovered in London. They give a humorous and unsophisticated view of daily life in the Mother City under the Governorship of Sir Lowry Cole: a picturesque town of some 10 000 inhabitants. These interesting drawings, which were never published before, are all reproduced in this book and, to make the panorama complete, other Cape Town drawings of D'Oyly have also been added, together with those of his friend Frederick Knyvett. This book, therefore, gives a pictorial record of a few years in the city's history that is as unique as it is entertaining. The author matches the text to the pictures and gives a social history of daily life in Regency Cape Town: its buildings, its theatres and concerts, its singing and dancing, its military parades; but also the more serious side of life: religion and education, the struggle for the freedom of the Press and democracy, and for better medical care. From drawings and text together emerges a fascinating picture of Cape Town in the exuberant Regency spirit: a period much nearer to us than many today may imagine."

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