The Mummy. Chapters on Egyptian Funeral Archaeology
Cambridge: University Press, 1893. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo, xvi, 404pp., 9 plates, 4 of them folding. Original burgundy cloth with gilt-stamped vignette blind-stamped ruling, gilt lettering, ruling and publisher's device on spine. Marginalia. Profusely illustrated with eighty-eight striking depictions of Egyptian art and artifacts, many of them full page and rendered lithographically. Contains chapters on the Egyptian race and language, the country of Egypt and its history, Egyptian funerals, methods of mummifying, mummy cloths and Akhmim embroideries, Canopic Jars, the Book of the Dead, decorative arts, the Rosetta Stone, among others, and includes lists of names, cartouches, hieroglyphic signs, and illustrations. E. A. Wallis Budge was acting assistant-keeper in the department of Egyptian and Assyrian antiquities at the British Museum. Index at rear. Binding with ght wear along edges, light bumpt at lower foredge corner, and lightly rubbed. Lightly starting at page 80. Very good- condition. Item #54752
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