4to. Volume I: Les Techniques de Tissages: 209 pp., illustrated in 21 photos, 65 figures in text, some are full page and with protective paper, 5 plates hors text, and 4 plates of colour samples / Volume II: Les Tapis Algériens: 711 pp., illustrated with 163 photos in and hors-text, of which 10 are colour fold-outs, plate 146 cut without loss, numerous figures, drawings and engravings, publisher’s original wrappers, slightly soiled, cover of Volume II professionally repaired, index, glossary, biblio, from the collection "Les Arts Populaires en Algérie" (Publication du Gouvernement Général de l'Algérie), edited by two publishing houses, La Typo-Litho et Jules Carbonel, Algiers, first edition, 1950-1953.

Synopsis

A PRESENTATION COPY BY AUTHOR. Lucien Camille Golvin (1905-2002), was a French specialist in the study of crafts in the Maghreb countries. He started in Algeria where, from 1946 to 1957, he was the director of the craft services to the government. These years were a continuation on a larger scale of his studies that had begun in Tunisia. He founded the ethnographic museums of Algiers, Oran and Constantine. His meeting with Georges Marçais inspired other areas of his research: he began excavations at the Kalâa of Beni Hammad and the site of the palace of Ziri in Ashir. It was during this time that he published the six volumes of Les Arts Populaires en Algérie (l949-1956). From 1957 to 1962, he held the chair of Art and Civilization of Islam in the Faculty of Arts and Human Sciences at the University of Algiers. From 1962 to 1977 he held the chair of Islamic Archaeology at the University of Aix-Marseille. He also directed several scientific missions, namely to Balis-Meskene (Syria), Thula (Yemen) and Fez (Morocco).
He is the father of the architect, archaeologist and watercolorist Jean-Claude Golvin and Jacques Golvin (also known as Ahmédée), the creator of a fanfare for the School of Fine Arts in Paris, cartoonist, graphic designer and watercolorist.
Bibliographic reference: Creswell 1197.