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    By E. A. Wallace Budge
    London; New York   The Medici Society, LTD. G. P. Putnam's Sons
    10" by 6.5" [1], vi, [2], 337, [3]; viii, [1], 340-704pp
    A striking work on the Papyrus of Ani, an in-depth history by E. A. Wallis Budge, colourfully illustrated with folding plates.
    By E. A. Wallace Budge

    1913 The Book of the Dead, The Papyrus of Ani

    London; New York   The Medici Society, LTD. G. P. Putnam's Sons
    10" by 6.5" [1], vi, [2], 337, [3]; viii, [1], 340-704pp
    A striking work on the Papyrus of Ani, an in-depth history by E. A. Wallis Budge, colourfully illustrated with folding plates.
    £395.00
    : 5kgs / : 888P4
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    Description

    Colour Plates, Folding Plates, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding

    Complete in two volumes.

    An impressive look at the ancient Egyptian funerary text, 'The Book of the Dead'.

    From around 1550 BC to 50 BC, this text would have been written on papyrus and places in coffins or burial chambers. 

    This volume looks in particular at the Papyrus of Ani, a manuscript that created around 1250 BC. The editor of this work, E. A. Wallis Budge, discovered this work in Luxor in 1888, acquiring it from Egyptians who were illegally trading such antiquities. This is considered to be the finest existent example of the Book of the Dead.

    Volume I is illustrated with thirty-seven colour folding plates. Collated, complete. 

    The plates in this work show a striking and vivid facsimile of the Ani Papyrus, with descriptions in text on the hieroglyphics used.

    Condition

    In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, smart. Gilt to the front boards has faded. Light marks to the boards and spines. Minor bumping to the head and tail of the spines and to the extremities, with a little loss of cloth to the head of the spines, heavier to Volume II. Small mark to the head of the spine of Volume II. Rubbed ink inscriptions to the recto of the front endpapers. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean.

    Very Good Indeed

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