Great Benin: Its Customs, Art and Horrors

Author: [WEST AFRICA] ROTH, H. Ling
Title: Great Benin: Its Customs, Art and Horrors
Publication: Halifax: F. King & Sons, 1903
Edition: First Edition

Description: First printing. Small quarto (26cm). Red cloth stamped in gilt; black coated endpapers; xii,234,xxxii pp; numerous black and white illustrations throughout. 1929 ownership inscription of C. T. Lawrence to half-title. Rubbed with small stains to cloth, sewing shaken, binding cracking around pp168-169, but internally clean: Good or better.

Benin was a kingdom in modern-day Nigeria, also known as the Edo Kingdom (with no relation to modern-day Benin). The kingdom flourished from the 13th century until 1897, when the British sacked Benin City in a punitive expedition. A tremendous amount of looted art (such as the Benin Bronzes that had decorated the royal palace) arrived in Britain, quickly catalyzing European interest in African art.

Henry Ling Roth was an anthopologist and curator of the Bankfield Museum in Halifax, Yorkshire. Only 320 copies of this work were printed. Uncommon in the trade.

Seller ID: 60910

Subject: Africa, Colonization & Empire, Folklore & Anthropology, History



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