Popular Arts of Spanish New Mexico

Santa Fe: Museum of New Mexico Press, 1974. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good Minus. 518pp. Quarto [28.5 cm] Tan cloth over boards. Minor soiling to the top and bottom edges of the text block. In the dust jacket, with rippling to the spine (likely from moisture). There is a tiny nick in the surface of the front panel, and the rear panel is lightly soiled. May require extra postage due to weight. According to the publisher, between this book's covers "a distinct society is revealed. The society is austere, frugal, and simple; it had to be. Although this society was in its heart and soul a part of Western Christendom, yet that source was thousands of miles and endless months away. So the people in this remotest province of northern New Spain were forced to re-create their own heritage from materials that were at hand. What they did and how they did it are described by author E. Boyd. The stark beauty of their homes, their tools and utensils, and their religious art comes to life in these pages, written by the acknowledged authority on Spanish Colonial arts and crafts.