1957-1977 Bristol Fashion; Bristol Tradition; Bristol's Trams; Bristol Blitzed; Bristol's Suburbs in the 1920s & 1930s; Bristol in the 1850s; Bristol in the 1880s; Bristol in the 1890s; Bristol in the 1920s; Bristol in the 1940s; Bristol as As It Was 1866-1860; Bristol as As It Was 1874-1866; Bristol as As It Was 1879-1874; Bristol as As It Was1914-1900; Bristol as As It Was1913-1921; Bristol as As It Was 1939-1914; Bristol as As It Was 1953-1956; Bristol as As It Was 1956-1959

Description

Illustrated, Local Imprint, Publishers' Original Binding

Across eighteen volumes, seventeen of which are signed, Winstone offers a fantastic photographic record of Bristol from the dawn of photography up until 1959. Containing between 100 and 250 photographs per volume, each of the four paperback and sixteen hardback volumes is prefaced by a different author. In the period before 1939 the dates run backwards, whereas books covering period after his birth in 1909 run forwards. From 1950s onward, Winstone took photographs of scenes which were soon to change as a result of redevelopment with the intent of publishing them in book form a decade later. All volumes present are signed to the recto of the front endpaper or at the title page except for Bristol's Suburbs in the 1920s &1930s which is lacking a signature. Five volumes contain several pages of advertisements for local Bristol merchants to the front and the rear. Nine volumes contain a form to the rear. The form enabled contemporary reads to purchase more volumes. Three volumes have pages of amendments tucked in.