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Early printing, corrected, with the new preface. With 75 beautiful colour-plates after paintings by R. Talbot Kelly. 4to, publisher’s original blue cloth, lettered and decorated all-over the upper cover and spine in a stylized Egyptian motif in gilt, green and orange, t.e.g. xv, 246, 2 ads. pp. A very good copy of this fine Adam and Charles Black production, the pale blue cloth with a bit of age evidence, internally quite bright and fresh.

Edizione: a very good and handsome copy. one of a. & c. black’s finest illustrated travel books. the 75 colour-plates and accompanying text vividly express an englishman’s views and impressions of this fascinating nation at the turn of the twentieth century.<br> a contemporary review from the spector said, “this is beyond question the most beautiful book of modern egypt that we have ever seen.” it is now a century later, and the same could easily be said today.