SIGNED: Colonial Houses of South Africa - Viney & Proust

1987 first edition hardcover with dust jacket in splendid condition. Signed by both Viney and Proust. Large format book. Slipcase original and included. 285 pages. Included: Vergelegen, Libertas, Stellenberg, Morgenster, Tuynhuis, Rustenburg, Sidbury Park, Kersefontein, Zorgvliet, Broadlands, Hawthornton, Tweedside Lodge, Zwartkoppies Hall, Grootte Schuur, Lynton Hall, Stonehouse, Westminster, Brenthurst, Ellingham and more. "Twenty-three houses, varying in character from the simple dignity of Barville Park in the Eastern Cape to the grand-scale opulence of the Tuynhuis in Cape Town, are explored here in depth. Their histories, both architecturally and as homes that are lived in, make fascinating reading, and author Graham Viney recounts them in a lively spirit of admiration. His meticulous research into the circumstances of their building, the families which occupied them, and their fate at the hands of subsequent generations, has added much to the record of South Africa's heritage. Close co-operation between Graham Viney and photographer Alain Proust has produced superb full-colour photographs that, together with historically fascinating black and white pictures, capture perfectly the spirit of each house.