The mottled matt straw-coloured dustjacket, printed in brown on all three faces, includes cameos of the three Volschenk generations - J E A (Jan) (1853-1936), his daughter Vera (1899-1987), who was the eldest of nine girls, and Vera's daughter, Helene Volschenk-Gerrand, who was born in 1924 and died in a car accident just six days after her mother's funeral.
The jacket is unchipped and clean at the front and spine but soiled in places on the back. The lime cloth-boards have a dent at the foot of the back cover. The binding is tight. The plain white endpapers are unmarked and bright, as are the xvi + 118 pp of text, printed on coated stock and profusely illustrated in b/w, with a 16 pp colour section at the centre.
This is a near-fine copy of this scholarly but warm appreciation of the work and lives of the Volschenk family, of which Jan, the senior member, is described in the postscript by G Muller Ballot as the father of South African landscape painting.
In her foreword, the well-known writer Dalene Matthee sets the family scene in Riversdale and Stilbaai.
- Jacket Condition: Very Good
- Binding Condition: Very Good
- Overall Condition: Very Good
- Size: 255 x 180
- Sold By: Fontein Books
- Contact Person: Richard Proctor-Sims
- Country: South Africa
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- Telephone: 051 773 0050/048 079 546 4032
- Preferred Payment Methods: Eft (South Africa), SWIFT (rest of world), or $ checks for US or Australian buyers
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