EGYPT AND NUBIA

With Illustrations

First Edition. 472 pages, title page vignette, numerous wood engravings in the text, full leather with decorative gilt and black title label gilt on the spine, marbled end papers and edges, a very good copy.

James Augustus St. John (24 September 1795 - 22 September 1875), was a British journalist, author and traveller. He obtained a connection with a Plymouth-based newspaper, and when, in 1824, James Silk Buckingham started the Oriental Herald, St. John became assistant editor.

In 1827, together with D. L. Richardson, he founded the London Weekly Review, subsequently purchased by Colburn and transformed into the Court Journal. He lived for some years on the Continent and went in 1832 to Egypt and Nubia, travelling mostly on foot. The results of his journey were published under the titles Egypt and Mohammed Ali, or Travels in the Valley of the Nile (2 vols., 1834), Egypt and Nubia (1845), and Isis, an Egyptian Pilgrimage (2 vols., 1853).

On his return he settled in London, and for many years wrote political leaders for the Daily Telegraph and, under the pseudonym of Greville Booke, a column in the Sunday Times. In 1868 he published a Life of Sir Walter Raleigh, based on researches in the archives at Madrid and elsewhere. He died in London in 1875. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Augustus_St._John