THE BOOK OF THE DEAD. An English Translation of the Chapters, Hymns, Etc., of the Theban Recension, with Introduction, Notes, Etc.. Three Volumes in One.
London and New York: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co. Ltd. / E.P. Dutton & Co., 1923. Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged (Second Impression). Small thick octavo, three volumes bound together in the publishers original brown cloth stamped in black. ccvi, 78; xv, (1), 79-406; ix, (1), 407-698, (36) pp. Index. Volume one with seven-fold color frontispiece of the Judgment Scene; volume two with two-fold frontispiece of the Funeral Procession; Volume three with folded color frontispiece of the Elysian Fields, all rendered in full colour lithographically. With twenty-two plates additonal black & white plates and four hundred and twenty vignettes. Issued in the publisher's 'Books on Egypt and Chaldaea' series. Neat name in pencil on the first endaper, dated 1927; a very good clean copy, sound and tight. Item #313912
¶ Transcription, in English of the Papayrus of Ani.
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