AFRICAN ART

Hamlyn, Middlesex, 1968.  Hard cover, 39 pages of text and map, followed by 51 pages of colour plates.  Very good; bit of shelf wear, binding sound.  Dust jacket price-clipped, shows edge wear, tiny tear at spine bottom and tape repairs to spine top on both sides of jacket; impressions on front panel; darkening along top inside edge with small faded water mark; age-toning.  Pencil erasure on front end paper, light age toning; interior clean and unmarked.  The Colour Library of Art series.  ‘But for the makers of the artefacts, their meaning lies in the part they play in the ceremonies for which they are created and in which they are related to the kindred arts of music, dancing and poetry. …To the African in a traditional society, who made them and who uses them, they are part of a ceremony in which drumming, dancing, chanting and sacrificing play equally important roles.’ (from front flap)