One hundred signed & numbered copies bound in quarter leather constitute a limited de luxe edition of which this is number 48. SIGNED by Eric Rosenthal.
134pp. Illustrations and photos in profusion. Author's commentary with every image.
A visual record of early Johannesburg.
Binding sound. Contents clean. A very good to near fine copy.
'This history of Johannesburg is different from its predecessors for several reasons. For the first time, all the material is first-hand and contemporary with the events, places and people described, no attempt being made to imagine or reconstruct what happened long ago.
Moreover, it covers the City's first eventful 25 years - from 1886 to 1911 - a period that began with the Ox-Wagon and Mail Coach and ended with our first Aeroplane. In 1886 prospectors pounded their samples with Mortar and Pestle; by 1911 mining was in progress 5,000 feet down, Tube Mills were already invented and, though not to be revealed till long after, Uranium had been discovered.
The book also contains the first systematic account - in so far as the details have survived - of the artists and photographers who recorded the story of Early Johannesburg.'
- Binding Condition: Near Fine
- Overall Condition: Near Fine
- Size: 4to.
