Dreamtime Heritage by Ainslie Roberts and Melva Jean Roberts

Dreamtime Heritage

Australian Aboriginal Myths in Paintings

Paintings by Ainslie Roberts

Text by Melva Jean Roberts

Rigby, 1975, [First Edition], ISBN 0727000462, colour reproduction plates throughout, line drawings, hardcover, dustjacket

Very Good Condition, minor edge and shelf wear, minor rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, no inscriptions, dustjacket shows minor edge and shelf wear with minor rubbing and bumping to edges and corners (see photographs)

“This series has been one of the great successes in Australian publishing and has sold close to a quarter-million copies.
Dreamtime Heritage is the latest in this series which interprets Aboriginal myths in paintings, text, and drawings.  The paintings are in the style which prompted the famous anthropologist Charles P. Mountford to say, “They are unique.  No Australian artist has painted images like this… he has evolved his own techniques to communicate his deep involvement with Aboriginal mythology.
Melva Jean Roberts, the wife of the artist, provides a warm and sympathetic tex.  The text for previous books in the series was written by Dr Mountford, but the pressure of other work prevented him from collaborating with Mr Roberts on this volume.”