A Guide to the Egyptian Collections in the British Museum
BRITISH MUSEUM.
BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION
Published: Trustees of the British Museum, 1909
Stock code: 12439
Price: £54.00
8vo., First Edition, with 53 plates and 180 illustrations in the text; original boards lettered in black, neatly rebacked, a very good, bright, clean copy.
First edition of this comprehensive guide. 'An attempt has here been made to present a sketch of the origin, the manners and customs, the language, the writing, the literature, the religion, and the burial rites of the peoples of Egypt, and of their history under the successive dynasties; embodying references to the several objects of the Collection which illustrate the different branches of the subject.'