EGYPTIAN PAPYRI AND PAPYRUS-HUNTING
Book Details + Condition: The Religious Tract Society (London). First Edition, 1925. Bright blue boards with embossed title on front and in gilt on spine. 324 pages, with 32 illustrations, which includes four color illustrations by Constance Baikie. Contents: The Papyrus and its Use as a Writing Material; The Use of the Papyrus in Ancient Egypt; The First Papyrus Hunters; Funerary Papyri; Ancient Papyri: Literature and Fiction; Theological and Literary Texts; and more. An overall firm and clean copy, with tight binding; bumped corners and lightly rubbed edges and spine ends; Boston University stamp on text blocks (the only apparent library notation); interior is clean and free of markings.
