THE BUILDINGS OF CENTRAL CAPE TOWN, VOLUMES. 1, 2 & 3:

VOLUME 1. FORMATIVE INFLUENCES AND CLASSIFICATION

VOLUME 2. CATALOGUE

VOLUME 3: CATALOGUE AND CLASSIFICATION

 Contributors: Rennie (John), Louw (Teresa) & Goddard (Gregg)

1. 65 pages, oblong 4to (255 x 360 mm), maps and photographs, brown faux cloth books, reprinted March 1979, dust soiling on the top edge, a very good copy in the dust jacket.
2. 369 pages, 8vo (220 x 150 mm), maps and photographs, brown faux cloth, a very good copy in the dust jacket.
3. 697 pages, 8vo (220 x 150 mm), maps - some folding and photographs, paperback, a very good copy.

The "Rennie" Grading System: This survey established the grading system (Grades 1, 2, 3, etc.) that is still the ancestor of the heritage management systems used by Heritage Western Cape and the City of Cape Town today. It documents Cape Town as it looked in the late 1970s. Many of the buildings catalogued in these books have since been demolished or radically altered, making this the only record of their original state.