xix + 325 pages, portrait of the author as frontispiece, profusely illustrated throughout, original mauve cloth with gilt titling and decoration on the upper cover and spine – the cloth is worn and frayed at the top and bottom of the spine, top edge gilt, other edges uncut, front hinge weak. (Good)
Amelia Ann Blandford Edwards (1831 – 1892). English novelist, journalist and Egyptologist. She was a co-founder of the Egypt Exploration Society in 1882. As part of her efforts to raise funds for the Society she undertook an extensive lecture tour of the United States in 1889-1890 and it is the contents of these lectures which are published in Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers.
- Binding Condition: Good
- Overall Condition: Good
- Size: 8vo (230x 155 mm)
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