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3 volumes. The new and best edition, revised and corrected. With over 645 finely accomplished plates throughout the three volumes presented in the text, as full-page cuts and with many lithographic coloured plates on separately printed pages as well as with many multi-page illustrations and folding maps and plans. Large, thick 8vo, publisher’s original dark-green cloth, beautifully decorated with gilt pictorial vignettes on the upper covers and lettered in gilt on the spines and upper covers, ruled in blind. xxx, 510; xii, 515; xi, 528 pp. A fine, handsome and very pleasing set in the original publisher’s beautifully decorated cloth bindings. The bindings are bright and fresh with no fading, internally clean and very sturdy. The plates are in excellent condition. An excellent set.

Edizione: an important and cornerstone work and of the most important works on the ancient egyptians. wilkinson’s acute observations and use of exhaustive illustrations of the manners and customs of an ancient people as depicted by the monuments and records make his work an absolute text-book on the subject with the author’s highly important explanations and comparisons of egyptian and greek notions. he was the first british egyptologist to understand the importance of the egyptian texts. the purpose of this edition, considered the best, was formed to present the great work in a manner of use to the general public as well as the student of ancient egypt and its peoples.<br> notes and additions in manuscript form were supplied by lady wilkinson for this edition from the work that the author was accomplishing even at the time of his death just prior to the publication of this work. an important general index was added to greatly for the printing.<br> ".[wilkinson] accomplished an extraordinary amount of work at most of the major archaeological sites then known in egypt and recorded them in his numerous notebooks and sketchbooks. his sketches are rendered with an accuracy and consistency that make them valuable evidence for monuments that were damaged or destroyed after he drew them." (odnb)