Beny, Roloff. The Pleasure of Ruins. Photographs by Roloff Beny. Text by Rose Macaulay selected and edited by Constance Babington Smith. Camera Magazine allowing village residents to document

allowing village residents to document their own lives and narratives

the book utilizes over 200 vintage images—many from the Yardley Historical Association—to document the town’s evolution from a quiet Quaker settlement to a bustling 19th-century industrial and transit hub

The book provides a visual archive of the turn-of-the-century Gilded Age along the New Jersey coastline

Technical and Philosophical Essays

Published when Steichen was 84 years old

Beny, Roloff. The Pleasure of Ruins. Photographs by Roloff Beny. Text by Rose Macaulay selected and edited by Constance Babington Smith. Camera Magazine allowing village residents to documentThames and Hudson, 1966. First edition, hardcover illustrated boards, ex library, no dust jacket, covers very good with some shelf wear. Custom made polyester jacket. Rear flyleaf has scuffs where card pocket removed. Corner crease on second page after front flyleaf. Top of spine has some wear. 12 tipped in color plates plus excellent full page monochrome reproductions in photogravure and 29 maps and plans. Archaeological sites photographed by Beny in