Captain Sweet’s Adelaide by Philip Pike and Julian Moore

Captain Sweet’s Adelaide

by Philip Pike and Julian Moore

Longwood Media, 1983, [First Edition], ISBN 0959248803, sepia photographs throughout, photographic endpapers, photographic frontispiece, landscape hardcover with dustjacket

Near Fine Condition, minor edge and shelf wear, minor rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, no inscriptions, dustjacket shows minor edge and shelf wear with a little rubbing to edges and corners (see photographs)

“Sweet’s views of Adelaide and its environs were famous in his own time and have here been recreated after a hundred years of comparative obscurity.  His photographs shine with a freshness that immediately recalls an early Adelaide, a city less than fifty years old – a city of open spaces, horse cabs and quiet gentility.
In Captain Sweet’s Adelaide, Philip Pike and Julian Moore have gone back to Sweet’s images and coupled them with their modern equivalents.  So, side by side, we have Adelaide in the 1880s and the 1980s and can decide for ourselves whether the changes of a hundred years are for better or worse.”