Manners and customs of the ancient Egyptians,. including their private life, government, laws, arts, manufactures, religion, agriculture, and early history; derived from a comparison of the paintings, sculptures, and monuments still existing, with the accounts of ancient authors. Illustrated by drawings of those subjects.
Sir John Gardner Wilkinson (1797 - 1875)
Category
Books
Date
1837
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Calke Abbey, Derbyshire
NT 3190646
Summary
Bibliographic description
3 v., XVII leaves of plates (some fold.) :. ill. (some col.), maps, plans ;. 8vo. Former shelfmark: I.b.20-22 Provenance: v. 1 inscribed "Isabel J. Crewe October 4th 1888. E.B. Penrice". Bookseller's ticket: "Fletcher, booksellers, Norwich". In pencil on front endpaper: VI/1 (v.1 & 3) I/1 (v.2). Binding: nineteenth-century half calf, marbled paper boards; marbled endpapers and edges; spine gilt-lettered on tan labels 'Wilkinson's Ancient Egyptians'.
Makers and roles
Sir John Gardner Wilkinson (1797 - 1875)