The Book of the Dead. Facsimile of The Papyrus of Ani in the British Museum
London: Longmans & Co., 1894. Second edition. Hardcover. Elephant Folio. vii, 37 double plates. Plate 37 bound upside down. Rebacked with three quarter black leather tape over black pebbled cloth, gilt ruling at foredge. Light green endpapers. Contains tables of plates and chapters at front, and thirty-seven double pages of the Papyrus of Ani in color lithography, with descriptive text interpreting the imagery, and abstracts of the texts printed to lower right corners of each plate.
The Papyrus of Ani, which was acquired by the Trustees of the British Museum in the year 1888, is the largest, most perfect, the best preserved, and the best illuminated of all the papyri which date from the second half of the XVIIIth dynasty (about B.C. 1500 to 1400). Its rare vignettes, and hymns, and chapter, and its descriptive introductory rubrics, here not present, render it of unique importance for the study of the Book of the dead... The first edition of the Facsimile of the Papyrus was issued in 1890, and was accompanied by a valuable Introduction by Mr. Le Page Renour, then Keeper of the Department of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities. (From introduction to the first edition).
Binding with some wear along edges, small chips, some on back cover, and some streaking. Small stain at bottom edge. Illustrated Ex Libris on inside front cover and reinforced with linen tape at gutters. Light smudging of endpapers with small chipt at upper foredge corner at front. Lightly starting after front free endpaper and inked name of previous owner on upper title page. g- to vg. Item #54550
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