OSIRIS AND THE EGYPTIAN RESURRECTION
Book Details + Condition: Philip Lee Warner (London). First Edition / First Printing, 1911. By the celebrated historian, author and Egyptologist E.A. Wallis Budge. Hardcovers measuring 10.25” x 6.5”. Beautifully bound in publisher’s red cloth boards, with gilt decoration and titles (etc) to front and to spine. Complete 2-volume set. Illustrated throughout, with color fold-out frontispieces in each volume present and in very good condition. Budge presents one of the most comprehensive, scholarly works on Osiris. He includes translations of numerous texts - going directly to numerous Egyptian texts, making use of the writings of Herodotus, Diodorus, Plutarch and other classical writers, and of more recent ethnographic research in the Sudan and other parts of Africa. He also presents reproductions of classical Egyptian art and iconography, the Heaven of Osiris, liturgy, shrines and mysteries, funeral and burial practices, human sacrifice, judge of the dead, links between Osiris worship and African religions, much more. The work is considered one of the most thorough explanations ever offered of Osirism and the cult of Osiris.
From the massive occult collection of King Lawrence Parker - academic, dissertation author, and book collector extraordinaire. For both volumes: Firm binding; light wear to boards, with a bit of fading to spines and edges; chafed spine ends; bumped corners; Parker's info to ffep; interior is clean and free of markings.
