Egypt and Western Asia in the Light of Recent Discoveries
KING, L.W., H.R., HALL
Containing One Hundred Plates and Illustrations.
ROBERT SINKER'S COPY
Published: SPCK, [1907]
Stock code: 21954
Price: £166.00
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece (original tissue guard captioned in red present), and numerous plates and illustrations in the text; original red buckram, bevelled boards, gilt back, black endpapers, uncut, backstrip very lightly sunned else a remarkably bright, fresh, clean copy.
ROBERT SINKER'S COPY WITH HIS SIGNED INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER VERSO. Robert Sinker (1838-1913) was famously Librarian of Trinity College, Cambridge and Chaplain of Trinity College Chapel. He compiled several bibliographical works, including a scholarly account of the College library and the standard Catalogue of its Fifteenth-Century Printed Books, and was active also as a biblical scholar, publishing a number of textual studies resulting from the progressive archaeology of the Holy Land. A SPLENDID AND IMPORTANT ASSOCIATION COPY.