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FRANCIS FRITH
Lower Egypt, Thebes, and the Pyramids. London: William Mackenzie, [c.1862]. 4° (440 x 315mm). 37 mounted albumen prints (most c.160 x c.230mm). (Scattered spotting on title, and mostly on guards and mounts, front blanks creased). Original green quarter leather, spine in compartments with bands, covers panelled in blind, spine and front cover lettered in gilt, edges gilt (covers with light damp-stain, extremities rubbed).
The second volume in the second, enlarged edition of Frith's Egypt, Palestine and Nubia, first published in two volumes in 1860. Gernsheim Incunabula 195 ('THE PRINTS IN THIS EDITION ARE OF MUCH STRONGER QUALITY THAN THOSE IN THE FIRST EDITION').
Lower Egypt, Thebes, and the Pyramids. London: William Mackenzie, [c.1862]. 4° (440 x 315mm). 37 mounted albumen prints (most c.160 x c.230mm). (Scattered spotting on title, and mostly on guards and mounts, front blanks creased). Original green quarter leather, spine in compartments with bands, covers panelled in blind, spine and front cover lettered in gilt, edges gilt (covers with light damp-stain, extremities rubbed).
The second volume in the second, enlarged edition of Frith's Egypt, Palestine and Nubia, first published in two volumes in 1860. Gernsheim Incunabula 195 ('THE PRINTS IN THIS EDITION ARE OF MUCH STRONGER QUALITY THAN THOSE IN THE FIRST EDITION').
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