Beny, Roloff. The Pleasure of Ruins. Photographs by Roloff Beny. Text by Rose Macaulay selected and edited by Constance Babington Smith. Camera Magazine Published when Steichen was 84

Published when Steichen was 84 years old

by the official Monmouth County Historian

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

became the definitive reference work of its time

Beny, Roloff. The Pleasure of Ruins. Photographs by Roloff Beny. Text by Rose Macaulay selected and edited by Constance Babington Smith. Camera Magazine Published when Steichen was 84Thames 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