Rock Paintings of the Drakensberg, Natal and Griqualand East

(Cape Town: Struik, 1973, 2nd enlarged edition) 0869770268. Number 158 of an edition limited to 275 copies, signed by the author. The second, enlarged edition is, furthermore, somewhat elusive. 4to; original brown quarter leather, with textured cloth sides; gilt device to upper cover; pp. 96, including index; numerous colour photographs. Spine gilt indistinct; extremities lightly rubbed; earlier owner's bookplate to front free endpaper; faint spotting to top edge. Very good condition. "Artists and archaeologists have long been deeply interested in South Africa's amazing wealth of prehistoric art. Not only have the works in the two thousand known galleries thrown a flood of light on the development of prehistoric art, they have also thrown a flood of light on the artists themselves. It is in his paintings that we see something of Stone Age man's practices and pastimes and get some idea not only of his ceremonies and beliefs, his hunting habits, weapons and clothes, but also of the animals and birds he hunted and the environment in which he lived. The paintings add more than a dash of colour to the Stone Age: they literally enliven it and give it a meaning that cannot be detected in the rest of early man's material culture. And incidentally, they provide our only means of appreciating Stone Age man's spirit." From Foreword by C. van Riet Lowe. .