Buy this book on-line Knox, Catherine (author), and Cora Coetzee (illustrator) : Victorian Life at the Cape 1870-1900(Cape Town: Fernwood Press, 1992) 0958315418 ISBN 0958315418
Oblong 4to; original crimson cloth, lettered in gilt on spine; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; decorative endpapers; pocket to rear pastedown with folding 'Map of Cape Town and Immediate Environs, Circa 1902'; pp. 184, incl. index; liberally illustrated in colour with Cora Coetzee's charming ink-and-wash sketches. Earlier owner's name to front free endpaper verso. Near fine condition. A fascinating and beautifully-presented social history. "Wealth and poverty, the decrepit and the very new, peril and charm ... vibrant contrasts thronged the streets of late Victorian Cape Town, that bustling meeting-place of nations. Progress brought steamships, a modern harbour, a railway station, telegrams, weekly mail, telephones, horseless carriages. The mineral revolution spelt Eldorado for some while others could only eke out an existence on the beach or the mountain. History, with its exciting and sometimes cruel extremes, was in the making ... " Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of Knox, Catherine (author), and Cora Coetzee (illustrator) : Victorian Life at the Cape 1870-1900. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including used books, fine bindings, out-of-print books, libri antichi and livres illustrées. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |