Very good (-) publisher’s original brown cloth covers with titles in gilt on the front cover. Narrow strip of fading alongtheu left hand side of the front cover. Browning/toning to the front and rear endpapers. 50pp with approximately 106 blacked white illustrations (including a three page panorama of Johannesburg) and 6 pages of text. Some slight browning/toning to the edges of the pages but the illustrations themselves are unmarked.
A fascinating collection of photographs of the newly united South Africa within the context of the British Empire including Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban, Pretoria, Bloemfontein, Pietermaritzburg and Bulawayo and the Victoria Falls.
G. B. & Co. (G. Budricks & Co. (aka Budrick’s Art Galleries) was located on the corner Adderley and Church Streets, Cape Town, and published a number of souvenir photo albums and postcards covering South African, Rhodesian, and Nyasaland scenes in the late C19th. and early C20th. Budricks appears as a picture framer and dealer in Juta's Directory of Cape Town from 1897 onwards, but only in 1910 is the firm listed at G. Budricks & Co., Fine Art Publisher and Manufacturer, P. O. Box 1018, Cape Town.)
- Jacket Condition: N/A
- Binding Condition: Very Good
- Overall Condition: Very Good
- Size: 30cm x 23cm
- Sold By: White Eagle Books
- Contact Person: Andrew Saidi
- Country: United Kingdom
- Email: [email protected]
- Telephone: 020 8997 9894
- Preferred Payment Methods: Paypal
- Trade Associations: PBFA IOBA
