Large format hardcover with 147 pages in good condition. The dust jacket has a tear at the rear. The author traces the possible origins of Cape rural architecture and outlines its development during the first 200 years of European settlement. Includes aspects of Cape rural vernacular architecture such as longhouses, corbelled buildings and buildings of the Karoo sheep farmer and wine cellars. Ranging from ornate manor houses to 'wolwehokke' and soap houses. Approx 280 b&w photographs and illustrations. Many historic photographs are by Arthur Elliott and drawings by Alys Fane Trotter, Johann C Friderici, J Mulder and E V Stade are reproduced. Babylonstoren, Meerlust, Constantia, Vredenburg, Tulbagh, Montagu, Vergelegen....