154 +[ ii] pages, numerous black and white photographs, contemporary adverts, portraits, colour and photogravure plates, original pictorial front cover bound in, later red quarter leather with matching cloth boards, titled gilt on upper cover and spine, which is worn at the bottom, a very good copy.
Presentation inscription on the front free end paper reads: To Mr and Mrs Frank R. Bradlow from their humble collaboration of “Thomas Bowler of the Cape of Good Hope”. A Gordon Brown Cape Town 10 Nov 1955.
Contents include: Thomas William Bowler – the man and his work by Maurice Green; Impressions of Cape Town in 1834 – pages from an old diary- selected by C.S.Hayter; The Romance of modern buildings in South Africa by C.P. Walgate; Two cousins – a short story by William Plomer.
List of South African Newspapers 1800 -1982, page 22: The Cape Times Annual was printed once a year by the Cape Times and commenced publication in 1880. It was called the Cape Times Christmas Number until 1906 when it changed its name to the Cape Times Annual. It ceased publication in 1941.
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