Britain Then and Now. The Francis Frith Collection.

London England: Weidenfeld & Nicolson/ Book Club. Fine/Near Fine. 1999. First Thus. Cloth. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall 1407213466 Harback Hardback. Small tear to bottom edge of D/J. In the century and a half since Francis Frith took his first photographs the face of britain has changed dramatically. Hamlets have become villages, villages towns, towns cities. The canals have silted up, the railways have had their reign, now the car and the lorry rule supreme. Monumental buildings have been destroyed, new ones have arisen; woods have vanished; roads scar the landscape; hedges have been rooted up. Three generations of Fritsh and now a photographic postcript by John Cleare record this process in stunning detail and fidelity. In his informed and incisve text, Philip Zelgler explains how these changes happened and what they meant to the men and women who lived in those houses, tilled those fields, admired those shop windows, ventured out on those new-fangled bicycles. Together pictures and text provides a chronicle of Britan since 1860 which is comparable in scope and richness. Illustrated throughout. 432 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions etc.) .