HOMESTEADS AND VILLAGES OF SOUTH AFRICA (Signed by the author)

Second edition: 114 pages + 57 photographic illustrations, maps, plans, numerous text illustrations, light foxing on the preliminary and end pages, brown cloth boards, titled gilt on the spine, a good copy in the dust jacket.

Signed on the title page by the author.

James Walton 1911 -1999 was the doyen of vernacular architecture in South Africa, and was the honorary life president and founder member of the Vernacular Society of South Africa. Though he was not a trained architect, his publications are all illustrated with his own inimitable pen-sketches, which VASSA is privileged to be able to use.

Walton’s eleven books and over two hundred papers are all pioneering efforts in their own field, which is the study of truly ‘folk’ and not just ‘historical’ architecture and structures.They include Homesteads and Villages of South Africa (1952),Water-mills, Windmills and Horse-mills of South Africa (1974), The Josephine Mill and its Owners (1978), Cape Dovecots and Fowl-runs (1985), Double-storeyed, flat-roofed Buildings of the rural Cape (1993).
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