Antiques and Bygones

(Cape Town: Howard Timmins, 1967). 8vo; original yellow boards, lettered in black on spine; price-clipped pictorial dustwrapper; pp. (xiv) + 123, incl. index; plates. Dustwrapper a little foxed and edgeworn; spine very slightly cocked; gift inscription to front free endpaper; earlier owner's small sellotape repair to scuff on front pastedown and free endpaper; trace of foxing to edges and endpapers. Good condition. "This is an exciting book by Denis Godfrey for collectors of antiques and objects of Africana interest. The author had great success with The Enchanted Door, a work on African book collecting which sold out two editions in a short time. Antiques and Bygones is about objects rather than books, and might be termed a notebook for South African collectors. The subjects dealt with concisely and clearly include furniture, colour prints, silver, Persian rugs, jewellery, beds, glass, pewter, dolls, chamber pots and many other items. ... Denis Godfrey, who was born in the Transkei of 1820 Settler ancestry, is a Johannesburg journalist and has written and lectured extensively on Africana, which he began collecting 25 years ago." .